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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: American Sensations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Doctor in training.
(b) Artist.
(c) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(d) Lawyer.

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

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) General Lafayette.
(d) Victor Hugo.

4. Where was the first children's hospital opened?
(a) Paris.
(b) Boston.
(c) London.
(d) Tokyo.

5. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Yale.
(d) New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?

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

3. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?

4. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?

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?

(see the answer key)

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