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

2. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Capitol in Washington.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The White House.

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

4. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) Samuel Morse.
(b) George Healy.
(c) Nathaniel Willis.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

2. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

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

4. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

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