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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. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?
(a) He did not want to leave his friend, Morse.
(b) He was wife was expecting another child.
(c) He did not think it would affect him.
(d) He was ill, as was his wife.

2. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) Mount Vernon.
(b) The Pentagon.
(c) The Capitol.
(d) The White House.

3. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?
(a) A sculptor.
(b) A landscape painter.
(c) A portrait painter.
(d) A cameo maker.

4. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and gynecology.
(b) Surgery and general medicine.
(c) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(d) Surgery and pediatrics.

5. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(b) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(c) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

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

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

5. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?

(see the answer key)

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