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

2. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Charles Sumner.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

3. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A PhD.
(b) A high school degree.
(c) A college degree.
(d) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.

4. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?

2. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

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

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

5. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

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