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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 were omnibuses?
(a) Large wheelchairs.
(b) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.
(c) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.
(d) Double rider bikes.

2. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) An art museum.
(b) A Paris hospital.
(c) A church.
(d) A highly respected Paris university.

3. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) A historian.
(b) An artist.
(c) A writer.
(d) A judge.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

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

3. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

4. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

5. What was Emma Willard's profession?

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