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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. 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 see every part of human anatomy.
(b) It allowed him to see the differences in female and male anatomy.
(c) It allowed him to practice surgical techniques.
(d) It allowed him to get used to touching a patient.

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

3. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) John Trumbull.
(b) Degas.
(c) Grandma Moses.
(d) Picasso.

4. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A cruise ship.
(b) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.
(c) A millitary jail.
(d) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.

5. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) Charles Sumner.
(b) John Fenimore Cooper.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

2. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

3. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

4. How did theater help Americans learn French?

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

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