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

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

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

4. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?
(a) An uprising among the poor.
(b) A political protest.
(c) A Revolutionary War reenactment.
(d) A civil war battle.

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Less than a hundred years.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) More than three hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

2. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?

3. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?

4. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

5. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?

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