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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. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?
(a) He was ill, as was his wife.
(b) He did not want to leave his friend, Morse.
(c) He was wife was expecting another child.
(d) He did not think it would affect him.

2. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.
(b) A millitary jail.
(c) A cruise ship.
(d) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.

3. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and general medicine.
(b) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(c) Surgery and pediatrics.
(d) Surgery and gynecology.

4. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) An art museum.
(b) A church.
(c) A highly respected Paris university.
(d) A Paris hospital.

5. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?
(a) Preaching.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Writing.
(d) Inventing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

3. Who is Natty Bumppo?

4. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

5. What were the June Days of 1848?

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