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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. What was Innocents Abroad?
(a) Mark Twain's best selling book during his lifetime.
(b) Mark Twain's favorite poem.
(c) Mark Twain's favorite theater show.
(d) Mark Twain's most famous short story.

2. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) President Polk died.
(b) Crowds marched in protest.
(c) A new Revolution began.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.

3. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The accomadations.
(b) The roads.
(c) The food.
(d) The vehicles.

4. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Notre Dame.
(b) Ecole de Medecine.
(c) St. Catherine's.
(d) Hotel Dieu.

5. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(b) That it was poor and wealthy.
(c) That it was filled with complex people.
(d) That it was a world rich in history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the quickest killer of those locked in Paris during the siege?

2. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?

3. What is the Sorbonne?

4. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

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

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