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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: The Medicals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed women to study with men.
(b) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(c) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.

2. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Palace Royale.
(c) École des Beaux-Arts.
(d) The Sorbonne.

3. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Degas.
(b) Grandma Moses.
(c) John Trumbull.
(d) Picasso.

4. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To vacation.
(b) To learn from Parisian artists.
(c) To join friends.
(d) To further his education.

5. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?
(a) A portrait painter.
(b) A sculptor.
(c) A cameo maker.
(d) A landscape painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?

2. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?

3. What were omnibuses?

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?

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

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