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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 blacks to study alongside whites.
(b) It allowed women to study with men.
(c) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.

2. How did theater help Americans learn French?
(a) Hearing the language constantly helped them figure out the words.
(b) The words were spoken slower than in everyday conversation.
(c) The drama forced them to know French to understand the plot.
(d) They would bring an English copy of the play to follow along.

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

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

5. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes stress that the ability to dissect a human corpse was a unique and deeply important part of his French medical training?
(a) It allowed him to practice surgical techniques.
(b) It allowed him to get used to touching a patient.
(c) It allowed him to see every part of human anatomy.
(d) It allowed him to see the differences in female and male anatomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

2. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

3. What were omnibuses?

4. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

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

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