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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Bound to Succeed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?
(a) Italian.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) English.

2. What took place on September 2, 1851?
(a) A coup.
(b) A protest march.
(c) A natural disaster.
(d) An execution.

3. How did Antoine Gros die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Cancer.

4. Who was Antoine Gros?
(a) A law professor.
(b) A medical teacher.
(c) An art student.
(d) An art teacher.

5. 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) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(b) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(c) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

2. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?

3. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?

4. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?

5. What helped bring more visitors to Paris from the rest of Europe?

(see the answer key)

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