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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The roads.
(b) The accomadations.
(c) The vehicles.
(d) The food.

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

3. What were the June Days of 1848?
(a) The first days of the new republic in France.
(b) A month of peace during the new revolution.
(c) The beginning of war with Germany.
(d) Four days of horrendous fighting.

4. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To see all of Paris below it.
(b) To prove he could.
(c) To see the cathedral.
(d) To get exercise.

5. Who was William Wells Brown?
(a) A doctor and fugitive slave.
(b) An artist and writer.
(c) A politician and abolitionist.
(d) A writer, abolitionist, and fugitive slave.

6. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Degas.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Grandma Moses.
(d) John Trumbull.

7. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.
(b) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.
(c) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.
(d) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.

8. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) His wife.
(b) Congressman Brooks.
(c) A mugger on the street.
(d) Naval officer William Lynch.

9. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) Theatre de l'Opera.
(c) Place du Pantheon.
(d) Les Halles.

10. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) John Sanderson.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(d) David Farragut.

11. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?
(a) Abigail Adams.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Adams.

12. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?
(a) A civil war battle.
(b) A political protest.
(c) A Revolutionary War reenactment.
(d) An uprising among the poor.

13. What were omnibuses?
(a) Large wheelchairs.
(b) Double rider bikes.
(c) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.
(d) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.

14. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(b) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(c) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed women to study with men.

15. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?
(a) A lack of understanding about female anatomy.
(b) A lack of respect for the particular ailments of women.
(c) Lack of freedom to examine female patients.
(d) Lack of concern for the conditions centering on pregnancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Morse Code?

2. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

3. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

4. Who was Benjamin Franklin?

5. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

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