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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. For what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?
(a) Poor health.
(b) To visit old friends.
(c) To further his studies.
(d) To show it to his children.

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

3. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Ecole de Medecine.
(b) Notre Dame.
(c) St. Catherine's.
(d) Hotel Dieu.

4. How large is Webster's Reply to Hayne by George Healy?
(a) 15 x 27 feet.
(b) 10 x 14 feet.
(c) 30 x 27 feet.
(d) 6 x 9 feet.

5. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.
(b) George Healy's uncle.
(c) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(d) Samuel Morse's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

2. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

3. Who was Antoine Gros?

4. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

5. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

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