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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: Voila Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.
(b) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.
(c) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(d) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.

3. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Doctor in training.

4. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) General Lafayette.
(d) Victor Hugo.

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) More than three hundred years.
(c) Less than a hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

2. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

3. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?

4. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

5. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

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