The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter One: The Way Over

1. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

3. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?

4. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

5. What is the Sorbonne?

6. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

7. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

8. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

9. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

10. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?

11. Who was the queen...
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