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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Change at Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) A highly respected Paris university.
(b) An art museum.
(c) A Paris hospital.
(d) A church.

2. What country denied a patent to Morse for his new invention in 1837?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

3. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Hamsters.
(b) Fish.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

4. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) John Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Charles Sumner.

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) John Sanderson.
(b) David Farragut.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Melancthon T. Woolsey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Emma Willard's profession?

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

3. What were omnibuses?

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

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?

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