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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. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?
(a) He was the new American minister.
(b) To teach.
(c) For education.
(d) He was exiled from America.

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

3. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Typhoid fever.

4. Whose work filled more than half of the American exhibit space in the Palais des Machines at the Exposition Universelle?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Samuel Morse.

5. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The White House.
(c) The Capitol.
(d) Mount Vernon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

2. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?

3. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

4. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

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

(see the answer key)

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