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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?
(a) To teach.
(b) He was exiled from America.
(c) For education.
(d) He was the new American minister.

2. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To further his education.
(b) To join friends.
(c) To learn from Parisian artists.
(d) To vacation.

3. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Notre Dame.
(b) Hotel Dieu.
(c) Ecole de Medecine.
(d) St. Catherine's.

4. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) A mugger on the street.
(b) Naval officer William Lynch.
(c) Congressman Brooks.
(d) His wife.

5. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

2. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

3. Who was P.T.Barnum?

4. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

5. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?

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