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

2. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?
(a) To further her legal education.
(b) To further her artistic education.
(c) To further her medical education.
(d) To further her general education.

3. For what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?
(a) Poor health.
(b) To show it to his children.
(c) To visit old friends.
(d) To further his studies.

4. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Recognized the new government.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(d) Waited for orders from the President.

5. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A high school degree.
(b) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.
(c) A college degree.
(d) A PhD.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Richard Rush?

2. Who was Louis Napoleon?

3. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

4. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

5. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

(see the answer key)

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