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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?
(a) Art.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Education.
(d) Law.

2. When did Washburne win election into the Congress?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1846.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1852.

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

4. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) The American Revolution.
(d) The American Civil War.

5. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was filled with complex people.
(b) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(c) That it was a world rich in history.
(d) That it was poor and wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Richard Rush?

2. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?

3. How did Saint-Gaudens meet White?

4. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?

5. Who was P.T.Barnum?

(see the answer key)

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