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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(b) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(c) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(d) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.

2. What is the Sorbonne?
(a) An art museum.
(b) A Paris hospital.
(c) A highly respected Paris university.
(d) A church.

3. How did theater help Americans learn French?
(a) They would bring an English copy of the play to follow along.
(b) The drama forced them to know French to understand the plot.
(c) The words were spoken slower than in everyday conversation.
(d) Hearing the language constantly helped them figure out the words.

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

5. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The large number of single women.
(b) Social freedoms.
(c) The availability of cheap education.
(d) The immense number of churches in the city.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

3. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

4. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?

5. What is the Louvre?

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