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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Change at Hand.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?
(a) The transatlantic cable.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Pig latin.
(d) The telegraph.

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

3. What is the Louvre?
(a) An architecture school.
(b) A medical school.
(c) An art school.
(d) An art musuem.

4. What were the June Days of 1848?
(a) The first days of the new republic in France.
(b) A month of peace during the new revolution.
(c) Four days of horrendous fighting.
(d) The beginning of war with Germany.

5. 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 concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.
(b) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.
(c) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(d) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

2. What happened on February 22, 1847?

3. 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?

4. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

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