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

2. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Hotel Dieu.
(b) Notre Dame.
(c) St. Catherine's.
(d) Ecole de Medecine.

3. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) New York University.
(b) Yale.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Harvard.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

2. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?

3. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

4. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

5. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

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