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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven: Paris Again.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?
(a) Russian.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

2. From what illness did Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, suffer?
(a) Muscular dystrophy.
(b) Bright's disease.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Cancer.

3. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An art master.
(c) A writer.
(d) A medical professor.

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

5. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?

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

3. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?

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 did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

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