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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. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Columbia.

2. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Smallpox.

3. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Hamsters.
(c) Fish.
(d) Cats.

4. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was a world rich in history.
(b) That it was filled with complex people.
(c) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(d) That it was poor and wealthy.

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?

2. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

3. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

4. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

5. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

(see the answer key)

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