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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: The Medicals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

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 the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) The White House.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Capitol in Washington.

4. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.
(c) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.
(d) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

2. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

3. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?

4. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

5. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

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