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

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

3. What is the Louvre?
(a) An architecture school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An art school.
(d) An art musuem.

4. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?
(a) One of the American minister to France, General Lewis Cass.
(b) One of Mrs. Cass.
(c) One of Mrs. Otis.
(d) One of Queen Victoria.

5. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?
(a) Oversized shirts.
(b) High pompadour haircuts.
(c) Blousy slacks.
(d) Beards and mustaches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?

3. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?

4. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

5. How did theater help Americans learn French?

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