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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 were omnibuses?
(a) Large wheelchairs.
(b) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.
(c) Double rider bikes.
(d) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.

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

3. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) Samuel Morse's daughter.
(b) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.
(d) George Healy's uncle.

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

5. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) The White House.
(b) Mount Vernon.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The Capitol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

2. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

3. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?

4. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

5. What happened on February 22, 1847?

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