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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 the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Sears Tower.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Capitol in Washington.

2. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper's son.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper's father.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.

3. 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.

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

5. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(b) It allowed women to study with men.
(c) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(d) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

3. 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?

4. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

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

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