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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Harvard.
(b) New York University.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

2. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Sorbonne.
(b) The Palace Royale.
(c) École des Beaux-Arts.
(d) The Louvre.

3. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?
(a) Andre the Giant.
(b) Tom Thumb.
(c) Tiny Tim.
(d) The Rock.

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

5. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?
(a) From gossip.
(b) From previous travels.
(c) From the styles and art of Paris.
(d) From the newspapers and literature.

6. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) John Quincy Adams.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

7. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) Place du Pantheon.
(c) Les Halles.
(d) Theatre de l'Opera.

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

9. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?
(a) Art.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Education.

10. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) A mugger on the street.
(b) Naval officer William Lynch.
(c) His wife.
(d) Congressman Brooks.

11. Who was Richard Rush?
(a) An American congressman.
(b) A medical student.
(c) An artist.
(d) An American minister to Paris.

12. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) David Farragut.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(d) John Sanderson.

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

14. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(b) Surgery and gynecology.
(c) Surgery and pediatrics.
(d) Surgery and general medicine.

15. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?
(a) That it was a world rich in history.
(b) That it was filled with complex people.
(c) That it was poor and wealthy.
(d) That it was both filthy and filled with beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

2. Why was Charles Stratton unique?

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

4. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

5. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?

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