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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper's father.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper's son.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper.

3. What took place on September 2, 1851?
(a) A protest march.
(b) An execution.
(c) A natural disaster.
(d) A coup.

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

5. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?
(a) His charm.
(b) His family history.
(c) His looks.
(d) His name.

6. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?
(a) A college degree.
(b) A high school degree.
(c) A PhD.
(d) A recommendation from a practicing doctor.

7. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Smallpox.

8. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?
(a) Andre the Giant.
(b) The Rock.
(c) Tiny Tim.
(d) Tom Thumb.

9. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?
(a) The transatlantic cable.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) Pig latin.

10. Who was P.T.Barnum?
(a) A New York showman.
(b) A French artist.
(c) A French showman.
(d) A New York doctor.

11. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Mary Cassatt.
(c) Sally Foster Otis.
(d) Lucretia Morse.

12. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(b) Artist.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Doctor in training.

13. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The Capitol.
(c) The White House.
(d) Mount Vernon.

14. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) 150 miles.
(c) 110 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

15. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(b) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.
(c) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.
(d) The days were much longer in the winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?

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

3. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

4. What did Healy use to get some of the faces in his painting, Webster's Repy to Hayne, correct?

5. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?

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