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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Emma Willard's profession?

2. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

3. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

4. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?

5. Who was P.T.Barnum?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

2. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?

3. What were some of the biggest complaints against King Louis-Phillipe in 1847 that eventually led to the king going into exile?

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

5. What famous anti-slavery author toured Paris in 1853? What were her impressions of the city?

6. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?

7. What was the primary mode of travel to Europe in the 1830s? What did many of these early travelers think of this mode of transportation?

8. What did the Americans find unusual about the way in which Parisians took their meals?

9. What kind of careers would most of the American doctors who trained in Paris have?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following historical events in an essay, using quotes from the book to support your conclusions:

1) Siege of Paris

2) American Civil War

3) Laying of the Transatlantic Cable

4) Invention of the telegraph.

Essay Topic 2

What illness did August Saint-Gaudens suffer later in his life? Why did this illness cause Saint-Gaudens to fall into a dark depression? On what works was Saint-Gaudens working at the time? Why did he insist they be bronzed in Paris? Where did Saint-Gaudens move in July of 1900? for what reason? With whom would Saint-Gaudens live out the rest of his life? What was the Paris Saint-Gaudens left behind like? What influence did Paris continue to have on Americans? What influence does Paris have on Americans now?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Americans want to go to Paris? Who was among the first Americans to travel to Paris in the 1830s? What was the main purpose for most of these people in the 1830s? What was the political atmosphere like in America during this time? How much influence did this have on the motives of those traveling to Paris? What was the trip to Paris like? What were some of the discomforts of this trip? What were some of the pleasures of this trip?

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