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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 problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(b) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(c) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

2. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed women to study with men.
(b) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(c) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(d) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.

3. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To prove he could.
(b) To see the cathedral.
(c) To get exercise.
(d) To see all of Paris below it.

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

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many were nudes.
(b) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.
(c) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.
(d) Many showed children in unusual situations.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?

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

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

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