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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: American Sensations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The food.
(b) The vehicles.
(c) The roads.
(d) The accomadations.

2. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Capitol in Washington.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Sears Tower.

3. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
(a) A French aristocrat and American Revolutionary hero.
(b) Cousin to the French king.
(c) A French theater star.
(d) Leader of the French government.

4. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) David Farragut.
(b) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(c) John Sanderson.
(d) Samuel Morse.

5. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper's father.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper's son.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

2. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

3. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?

4. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?

5. Who was Antoine Gros?

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