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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: Madness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Charles Moulton amuse the invaders at his home in May of 1871?
(a) By badly mispronouncing his French.
(b) By faking a heart attack.
(c) By singing to the invaders.
(d) By refusing to allow them to take his animals.

2. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and general medicine.
(b) Surgery and gynecology.
(c) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(d) Surgery and pediatrics.

3. Who was William Wells Brown?
(a) An artist and writer.
(b) A politician and abolitionist.
(c) A doctor and fugitive slave.
(d) A writer, abolitionist, and fugitive slave.

4. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(b) It allowed women to study with men.
(c) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.

5. Where did Washburne make his first stand as a lawyer?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Maine.
(c) New York.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?

2. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

3. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

5. What happened to the government of France on April 4, 1871?

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