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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: Madness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the June Days of 1848?
(a) The beginning of war with Germany.
(b) The first days of the new republic in France.
(c) A month of peace during the new revolution.
(d) Four days of horrendous fighting.

2. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Nathaniel Willis.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

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

4. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To vacation.
(b) To join friends.
(c) To learn from Parisian artists.
(d) To further his education.

5. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?
(a) Can-Can.
(b) Tango.
(c) Ballet.
(d) Waltz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political office did people want Washburne to run for after he left Paris?

2. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?

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

4. Who was Raoul Rigault?

5. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

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