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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fellow artist did Augustus Saint-Gaudens often exchange work with?
(a) Mary Cassatt.
(b) George Healy.
(c) John Singer Sargent.
(d) Carroll Beckwith.

2. What happened to the government of France on April 4, 1871?
(a) The Commune appointed a dictator.
(b) The Commune was impeached.
(c) The Commune elected a new president.
(d) The Commune was all murdered.

3. Among the works Saint-Gaudens created during his final days in Paris, which portrayed a controversial Civil War figure still living who posed for several sittings for Saint-Gaudens to create a bust to help int he creation of a statue?
(a) Grant.
(b) Lee.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Farragut.

4. Where was Mary Cassatt born?
(a) Paris.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Georgia.
(d) London.

5. How old was Mary Cassatt when she made her debut as an Impressionist?
(a) 34.
(b) 21.
(c) 44.
(d) 31.

6. How old was Augustus Saint-Gaudens when his father apprenticed him to a cameo cutter?
(a) Ten.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Eighteen.

7. What ailment left Gussie Saint-Gaudens feeling isolated late in life?
(a) Deafness.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Muteness.
(d) Diabetes.

8. Where did Augustus Saint-Gaudens teach art for a time?
(a) The Art Students League.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Julliard.

9. What illness did Saint-Gaudens suffer in June of 1900?
(a) A tumor in his lower intestine.
(b) A tumor in his liver.
(c) A tumor in his brain.
(d) A tumor in his stomach.

10. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?
(a) German army.
(b) Italian army.
(c) American Marines.
(d) National Guard of France.

11. Where did Washburne make his first stand as a lawyer?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Illinois.

12. How many love affairs did Saint-Gaudens admit to having in his Reminiscences before meeting Gussie?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

13. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?
(a) Augustus' cousin.
(b) Gussie's father-in-law.
(c) Augustus' brother.
(d) Gussie's brother.

14. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?
(a) Gussie Saint-Gaudens.
(b) Richard Watson Gilder.
(c) Stanford White.
(d) John Singer Sargent.

15. What was the overwhelming feeling of most Americans who were stuck in Paris during the siege?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Relief.
(d) Indifference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an atelier?

2. Who commonly wore cameos during the time in which Saint-Gaudens was an apprentice in the art of cutting cameos?

3. For what reason did Henry Adams hire Saint-Gaudens?

4. How did Saint-Gaudens meet White?

5. Who was Richard Morris Hunt?

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