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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. Who was William Wells Brown?
(a) A writer, abolitionist, and fugitive slave.
(b) A politician and abolitionist.
(c) A doctor and fugitive slave.
(d) An artist and writer.

3. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Oncology.
(c) Gynecology.
(d) Pathological research.

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

5. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?
(a) The telephone.
(b) The telegraph.
(c) The transatlantic cable.
(d) Pig latin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Antoine Gros?

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

3. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?

4. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

5. Who was P.T.Barnum?

(see the answer key)

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