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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. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) Samuel Morse.
(b) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(c) John Sanderson.
(d) David Farragut.

2. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?
(a) Law.
(b) Art.
(c) Education.
(d) Medicine.

3. What does abdicate mean?
(a) To relinquish power formally.
(b) To agree to political demands.
(c) To retire.
(d) To be fired.

4. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?
(a) Gynecology.
(b) Pathological research.
(c) Surgery.
(d) Oncology.

5. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) President Polk died.
(b) A new Revolution began.
(c) Crowds marched in protest.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?

2. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?

3. What is the Sorbonne?

4. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

(see the answer key)

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