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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(b) Surgery and general medicine.
(c) Surgery and pediatrics.
(d) Surgery and gynecology.

2. What political office did people want Washburne to run for after he left Paris?
(a) State senate.
(b) Governor.
(c) President.
(d) Congress.

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

4. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper's son.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper's father.

5. For whose release did Washburne fight for in April of 1871?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
(c) Raoul Rigault.
(d) Monseigneur Georges Darboy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?

2. From what illness did Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, suffer?

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

4. What was considered the most important aspect of a cameo's success?

5. Of what battle was Admiral David Galsgow Farragut best remembered?

(see the answer key)

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