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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. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. return to Paris in 1886?

2. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?

3. How many siblings did Mary Cassatt have?

4. How did Charles Moulton amuse the invaders at his home in May of 1871?

5. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the terms of France's surrender to the Germans in 1871?

2. Who was Mary Cassatt's most loyal companion? How did she die? How did this impact Cassatt?

3. For what reasons did John Singer Sargent choose to make his home in Paris in 1874?

4. What impact did the Farragut have on Saint-Gaudens career?

5. What is significant about the arrival of Isadora Duncan in Paris in 1901?

6. What caused a second exodus out of Paris in 1871?

7. For what reason did General Louis Trochu refuse to allow people to leave Paris during his army's siege of the city?

8. What was the Paris Commune? How was it connected to communism?

9. Why did the Empress Eugenie feel the need to escape from the Tuileries? Who helped her?

10. What was the American Ambulance? Who created it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss in an essay one of the following, describing the location both as it appeared to the American travelers in the 1830s as well as some of its history and its modern day existence:

1) Palais Royale

2) Louvre

3) Garden of the Tuileries

4) Bourse.

Essay Topic 2

Who is James Fenimore Cooper? What was he famous for when he moved to Paris in the 1830s? What was his motive for moving to Paris? What were his first impressions of Paris? What did he go on to do with his career while living in Paris? With whom did Cooper befriend while living in Paris? How did the people, culture, and styles of Paris impact Cooper's work? What might be different about Cooper's work and legacy if he had never gone to Paris?

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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