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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen: Au Revoir, Paris!.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?
(a) The Rock.
(b) Tiny Tim.
(c) Andre the Giant.
(d) Tom Thumb.

3. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?
(a) Gussie Saint-Gaudens.
(b) Richard Watson Gilder.
(c) John Singer Sargent.
(d) Stanford White.

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 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.

5. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and general medicine.
(b) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(c) Surgery and pediatrics.
(d) Surgery and gynecology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?

2. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?

3. What were the June Days of 1848?

4. Who designed Lady Liberty?

5. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?

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