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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 the Marquis de Lafayette?
(a) A French theater star.
(b) A French aristocrat and American Revolutionary hero.
(c) Leader of the French government.
(d) Cousin to the French king.

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

3. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 10 miles.
(c) 110 miles.
(d) 150 miles.

4. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) The White House.
(b) Mount Vernon.
(c) The Capitol.
(d) The Pentagon.

5. 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?
(a) It allowed him to practice surgical techniques.
(b) It allowed him to see the differences in female and male anatomy.
(c) It allowed him to get used to touching a patient.
(d) It allowed him to see every part of human anatomy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

3. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?

4. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

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

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