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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: American Sensations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) École des Beaux-Arts.
(b) The Sorbonne.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The Palace Royale.

2. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
(a) A French theater star.
(b) Leader of the French government.
(c) Cousin to the French king.
(d) A French aristocrat and American Revolutionary hero.

3. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To be free of responsibility.
(b) To study.
(c) To write.
(d) To meet a suitable woman to marry.

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

5. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed women to study with men.
(b) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(c) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

2. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

3. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

4. Why was Charles Stratton unique?

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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