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

2. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?
(a) His looks.
(b) His charm.
(c) His name.
(d) His family history.

3. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.
(b) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(c) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(d) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.

4. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?
(a) Les Halles.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Theatre de l'Opera.
(d) Place du Pantheon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was John Singer Sargent?

2. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

3. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

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

5. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

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