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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Change at Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 understanding about female anatomy.
(b) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(c) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(d) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.

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

3. Who was Richard Rush?
(a) A medical student.
(b) An American minister to Paris.
(c) An American congressman.
(d) An artist.

4. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To be free of responsibility.
(b) To write.
(c) To study.
(d) To meet a suitable woman to marry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

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

3. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

4. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?

5. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

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