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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. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes stress that the ability to dissect a human corpse was a unique and deeply important part of his French medical training?
(a) It allowed him to get used to touching a patient.
(b) It allowed him to practice surgical techniques.
(c) It allowed him to see the differences in female and male anatomy.
(d) It allowed him to see every part of human anatomy.

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

3. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a painter.
(b) That of a blind man.
(c) That of a child.
(d) That of a perfectionist.

4. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?
(a) A civil war battle.
(b) A Revolutionary War reenactment.
(c) An uprising among the poor.
(d) A political protest.

5. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(b) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.
(c) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.
(d) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?

2. What was Emma Willard's profession?

3. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

4. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

5. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?

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