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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven: Paris Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?
(a) Only for a year.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only for a few months.

2. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Impressionists.
(d) Portraitures.

3. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Henry Thoreau.
(d) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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

5. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A PhD.
(b) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.
(c) A college degree.
(d) A high school degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?

2. 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?

3. How did James Jackson Jr. die?

4. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?

5. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

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