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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) 150 miles.
(c) 110 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

2. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) General Lafayette.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) King Louis-Phillipe.
(d) Samuel Morse.

3. How did Charles Moulton amuse the invaders at his home in May of 1871?
(a) By singing to the invaders.
(b) By refusing to allow them to take his animals.
(c) By faking a heart attack.
(d) By badly mispronouncing his French.

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

5. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a painter.
(b) That of a child.
(c) That of a blind man.
(d) That of a perfectionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?

2. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

3. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

4. Who was Richard Rush?

5. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

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