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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen: Au Revoir, Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the government of France on April 4, 1871?
(a) The Commune was all murdered.
(b) The Commune appointed a dictator.
(c) The Commune was impeached.
(d) The Commune elected a new president.

2. For whose release did Washburne fight for in April of 1871?
(a) Raoul Rigault.
(b) Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Monseigneur Georges Darboy.

3. What ailment left Gussie Saint-Gaudens feeling isolated late in life?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Muteness.

4. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) Charles Sumner.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) George Healy.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mark Twain?

2. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

3. Who was Louis Napoleon?

4. What was the overwhelming feeling of most Americans who were stuck in Paris during the siege?

5. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?

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