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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 does abdicate mean?
(a) To be fired.
(b) To agree to political demands.
(c) To relinquish power formally.
(d) To retire.

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

3. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?
(a) King-President.
(b) Prince-President.
(c) Little Prince.
(d) Prince-King.

4. 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 see the differences in female and male anatomy.
(c) It allowed him to see every part of human anatomy.
(d) It allowed him to practice surgical techniques.

5. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?
(a) Reciting poetry while working.
(b) Working in complete silence.
(c) Singing as they worked.
(d) Working without companionship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

2. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?

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

4. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?

5. Who was Richard Rush?

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