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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?
(a) He was the new American minister.
(b) For education.
(c) To teach.
(d) He was exiled from America.

2. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?
(a) John Singer Sargent.
(b) Richard Watson Gilder.
(c) Stanford White.
(d) Gussie Saint-Gaudens.

3. 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) Waited for orders from the President.
(c) Recognized the new government.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who marched into Paris on March 1, 1871?
(a) English.
(b) Italians.
(c) Americans.
(d) Germans.

5. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Dr. Thomas Evans.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?

2. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?

3. Who commonly wore cameos during the time in which Saint-Gaudens was an apprentice in the art of cutting cameos?

4. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

5. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?

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