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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 requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A college degree.
(b) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.
(c) A PhD.
(d) A high school degree.

2. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Sorbonne.
(b) École des Beaux-Arts.
(c) The Palace Royale.
(d) The Louvre.

3. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?
(a) Lucretia Morse.
(b) Sally Foster Otis.
(c) Mary Cassatt.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

4. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) The economy in France was less stable than America.
(b) Incomes in France were much lower.
(c) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(d) Taxes in France were much higher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Natty Bumppo?

3. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

4. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

5. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

(see the answer key)

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