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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?
(a) Agassiz' wife
(b) Agassiz' sister
(c) Agassiz' secretary
(d) Agassiz' prize student

2. Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
(a) Swiss inventor
(b) Italian artist
(c) German-born naturalist
(d) Inventor of the Humvee

3. This book is a volume of 17 __________________.
(a) eulogies
(b) poems
(c) articles and addresses
(d) speeches

4. What subject had been an unpleasant one to Harriet since her childhood?
(a) Illness
(b) Death penalty
(c) Women's rights
(d) Slavery

5. Which U.S. president did Humboldt visit in 1804?
(a) John Quincy Adams
(b) Thomas Jefferson
(c) James Madison
(d) Abraham Lincoln

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harriet's famous book prompt?

2. Humboldt is the first European to ___________________________________.

3. What is Harriet's nickname?

4. Humboldt is one of the earliest _________________.

5. What is Harriet Beecher Stowe famous for writing?

(see the answer key)

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