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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 many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) Taxes in France were much higher.
(b) The economy in France was less stable than America.
(c) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(d) Incomes in France were much lower.

2. What is the Louvre?
(a) An art musuem.
(b) An architecture school.
(c) A medical school.
(d) An art school.

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

4. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?
(a) Writing.
(b) Inventing.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Teaching.

5. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The vehicles.
(b) The accomadations.
(c) The food.
(d) The roads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?

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

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

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. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?

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