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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: Madness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(b) Recognized the new government.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Waited for orders from the President.

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

3. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?
(a) The Deerslayer.
(b) The Ways of the Hour.
(c) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.
(d) The Last of the Mohicans.

4. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.
(b) Many were nudes.
(c) Many showed children in unusual situations.
(d) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.

5. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) École des Beaux-Arts.
(b) The Palace Royale.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The Sorbonne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did James Jackson Jr. die?

2. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

3. What famous politician was a friend of Washburne's?

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

5. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

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