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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 James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was poor and wealthy.
(b) That it was filled with complex people.
(c) That it was a world rich in history.
(d) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.

2. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.
(b) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.
(c) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(d) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.

3. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Consumption.

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

5. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?
(a) From the styles and art of Paris.
(b) From gossip.
(c) From the newspapers and literature.
(d) From previous travels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

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

3. Who is Natty Bumppo?

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

5. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

(see the answer key)

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