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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 type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(b) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.
(c) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.
(d) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.

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

3. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To prove he could.
(b) To get exercise.
(c) To see all of Paris below it.
(d) To see the cathedral.

4. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?
(a) The American Civil War.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The French Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Washburne help leave Paris at the beginning of the trouble with Germany?

2. 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?

3. What country denied a patent to Morse for his new invention in 1837?

4. What was the profession of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' father?

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

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