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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Heart attack.

2. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a child.
(b) That of a perfectionist.
(c) That of a painter.
(d) That of a blind man.

3. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?
(a) A lack of proper hygiene and sanitation.
(b) Under cooked food.
(c) Eating outdoors.
(d) Too many baths.

4. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?
(a) To paint John Quincy Adams.
(b) To paint Andrew Jackson.
(c) To visit his parents.
(d) To paint a copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington.

5. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Notre Dame.
(b) St. Catherine's.
(c) Hotel Dieu.
(d) Ecole de Medecine.

6. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(b) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.
(c) The days were much longer in the winter.
(d) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.

7. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A millitary jail.
(b) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.
(c) A cruise ship.
(d) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.

8. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) Incomes in France were much lower.
(b) The economy in France was less stable than America.
(c) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(d) Taxes in France were much higher.

9. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Sally Foster Otis.
(c) Lucretia Morse.
(d) Mary Cassatt.

10. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?
(a) An article written by a friend of Daguerre for the New York Observer.
(b) Morse's account of a visit with Daguerre that his brothers had published.
(c) An article written by Daguerre.
(d) A daguerreotype sent to the New York Observer by Morse.

11. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) George Healy.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Nathaniel Willis.

12. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?
(a) He did not want to leave his friend, Morse.
(b) He was wife was expecting another child.
(c) He did not think it would affect him.
(d) He was ill, as was his wife.

13. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) Italian.

14. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(b) Recognized the new government.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Waited for orders from the President.

15. Where was the first children's hospital opened?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?

2. What is the Louvre?

3. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

4. What took place on September 2, 1851?

5. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?

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