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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard.

2. What country denied a patent to Morse for his new invention in 1837?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

3. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and gynecology.
(b) General medicine and geriatric medicine.
(c) Surgery and general medicine.
(d) Surgery and pediatrics.

4. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?
(a) Prince-President.
(b) Prince-King.
(c) Little Prince.
(d) King-President.

5. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) École des Beaux-Arts.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) The Palace Royale.

6. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?
(a) The cost of living in France was much lower than America.
(b) Taxes in France were much higher.
(c) Incomes in France were much lower.
(d) The economy in France was less stable than America.

7. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) Nathaniel Willis.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) George Healy.

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

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

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

11. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Charles Sumner.
(c) William Morris Hunt.
(d) Richard Morris Hunt.

12. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
(a) Leader of the French government.
(b) Cousin to the French king.
(c) A French aristocrat and American Revolutionary hero.
(d) A French theater star.

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

14. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(c) Recognized the new government.
(d) Waited for orders from the President.

15. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.
(b) A new Revolution began.
(c) Crowds marched in protest.
(d) President Polk died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was William Wells Brown?

2. What was Emma Willard's profession?

3. 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?

4. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?

5. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

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