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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. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) A judge.
(b) A writer.
(c) An artist.
(d) A historian.

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

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

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

5. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) An American artist in Paris.
(b) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.
(c) A French immigrant.
(d) A French teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

2. How did theater help Americans learn French?

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

4. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

5. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?

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