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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: The Farragut.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Saint-Gaudens apply to create the Farragut memorial?
(a) For pride of country.
(b) For his wife.
(c) For the money and the possible boost to his career.
(d) For Farragut.

2. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A high school degree.
(b) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.
(c) A college degree.
(d) A PhD.

3. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.
(b) A new Revolution began.
(c) President Polk died.
(d) Crowds marched in protest.

4. How old was Augustus Saint-Gaudens when his father apprenticed him to a cameo cutter?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eighteen.

5. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Grandma Moses.
(b) Picasso.
(c) John Trumbull.
(d) Degas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was William Wells Brown?

2. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

3. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?

4. Who taught Elihu Latin?

5. 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?

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