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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 type of artist did George Healy long to be?
(a) A sculptor.
(b) A portrait painter.
(c) A landscape painter.
(d) A cameo maker.

2. What religion did Gussie Saint-Gaudens' parents assume her new husband was based on the nationality of his parents?
(a) Mormon.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Protestant.

3. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?
(a) One of Queen Victoria.
(b) One of the American minister to France, General Lewis Cass.
(c) One of Mrs. Cass.
(d) One of Mrs. Otis.

4. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?
(a) New York University.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

5. What famous work did John Singer Sargent create during the early part of the 20th century?
(a) The murals at the Boston Public Library.
(b) The portrait of Madame X.
(c) A portrait of John Quincy Adams.
(d) A mural at Madison Square Gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did theater help Americans learn French?

2. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?

3. How old was John Singer Sargent when he knew what he wanted to be?

4. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?

5. What does abdicate mean?

(see the answer key)

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