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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Change at Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) Less than a hundred years.
(c) More than three hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

2. How did theater help Americans learn French?
(a) They would bring an English copy of the play to follow along.
(b) Hearing the language constantly helped them figure out the words.
(c) The words were spoken slower than in everyday conversation.
(d) The drama forced them to know French to understand the plot.

3. How did Antoine Gros die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Suicide.

4. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Grandma Moses.
(b) John Trumbull.
(c) Degas.
(d) Picasso.

5. 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 both filthy and filled with beauty.
(c) That it was poor and wealthy.
(d) That it was filled with complex people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?

2. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

3. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

4. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

5. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

(see the answer key)

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