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

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

3. 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 civil war battle.
(d) A political protest.

4. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A cruise ship.
(b) A millitary jail.
(c) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.
(d) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.

5. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The vehicles.
(b) The accomadations.
(c) The roads.
(d) The food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

3. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?

4. Who was Antoine Gros?

5. Who was P.T.Barnum?

(see the answer key)

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