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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was filled with complex people.
(b) That it was a world rich in history.
(c) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.
(d) That it was poor and wealthy.

3. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Yale.

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

5. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?
(a) Prince-King.
(b) Prince-President.
(c) King-President.
(d) Little Prince.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?

2. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?

3. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

4. What happened on February 22, 1847?

5. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?

(see the answer key)

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