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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Oxford.

3. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?
(a) Writing.
(b) Preaching.
(c) Inventing.
(d) Teaching.

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

5. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) Henry Thoreau.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Herman Melville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

2. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. Why did Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?

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

5. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?

2. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

3. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?

4. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?

5. What was one of the most memorable landmarks the Americans would often stop to see on their way into Paris in the 1830s? Why were many Americans so impressed by this sight?

6. What was the genre of James Fenimore Cooper's first novel? Why was it not successful?

7. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?

8. How did the Americans travel the roads to Paris after arriving in Le Havre?

9. What one commission did Samuel Morse hope to get that he did not receive? Why did he not get it?

10. Who was James McNeill Whistler? In what country did he spend most of his childhood? What did others think of Whistler during his time in Paris?

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