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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?
(a) An uprising among the poor.
(b) A political protest.
(c) A civil war battle.
(d) A Revolutionary War reenactment.

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

3. Where was the first children's hospital opened?
(a) London.
(b) Boston.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Paris.

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

5. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Artist.

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

7. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Henry Clay.

8. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) Less than a hundred years.
(c) More than three hundred years.
(d) Fifty years.

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

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

11. What helped bring more visitors to Paris from the rest of Europe?
(a) New vehicles.
(b) New railroads.
(c) New public transit.
(d) New ships.

12. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Sorbonne.
(b) The Palace Royale.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) École des Beaux-Arts.

13. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?
(a) Tiny Tim.
(b) Andre the Giant.
(c) Tom Thumb.
(d) The Rock.

14. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(b) Doctor in training.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Artist.

15. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?
(a) The Deerslayer.
(b) The Ways of the Hour.
(c) The Last of the Mohicans.
(d) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?

2. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?

3. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

4. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

5. Who was Antoine Gros?

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