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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 Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(b) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.
(c) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.
(d) The days were much longer in the winter.

2. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?
(a) A lack of proper hygiene and sanitation.
(b) Too many baths.
(c) Under cooked food.
(d) Eating outdoors.

3. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?
(a) The Ways of the Hour.
(b) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) The Deerslayer.

4. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?
(a) Oversized shirts.
(b) Beards and mustaches.
(c) High pompadour haircuts.
(d) Blousy slacks.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

3. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

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

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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