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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 took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?
(a) A Revolutionary War reenactment.
(b) An uprising among the poor.
(c) A political protest.
(d) A civil war battle.

2. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?
(a) Inventing.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Writing.

3. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was poor and wealthy.
(b) That it was a world rich in history.
(c) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(d) That it was filled with complex people.

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

5. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.
(b) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.
(d) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

2. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

3. Who was Antoine Gros?

4. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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