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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 Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?
(a) To join his family.
(b) To escape prosecution.
(c) To aid his health.
(d) To have the freedom to speak his mind about the new French government.

2. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) More than three hundred years.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) Less than a hundred years.

3. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(b) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(c) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

4. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?
(a) Working without companionship.
(b) Reciting poetry while working.
(c) Singing as they worked.
(d) Working in complete silence.

5. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

2. How many siblings did Mary Cassatt have?

3. What profession did Augustus Saint-Gaudens' uncle have?

4. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

5. What buildings were set on fire by unknown arsonists in Paris in the spring of 1871?

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