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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 reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a perfectionist.
(b) That of a painter.
(c) That of a child.
(d) That of a blind man.

2. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?
(a) Gynecology.
(b) Oncology.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Pathological research.

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

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

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) John Quincy Adams.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

2. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

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

5. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?

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