The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

David McCullough
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) An artist.
(b) A judge.
(c) A writer.
(d) A historian.

2. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many were nudes.
(b) Many showed children in unusual situations.
(c) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.
(d) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.

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

4. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?
(a) It was a cheap department store.
(b) It was a delightful restaurant.
(c) It was an English bookstore, a gathering place.
(d) It was a art store friendly to visiting Americans.

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

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

7. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(b) Samuel Morse's daughter.
(c) George Healy's uncle.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.

8. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?
(a) One of Queen Victoria.
(b) One of Mrs. Cass.
(c) One of Mrs. Otis.
(d) One of the American minister to France, General Lewis Cass.

9. What does abdicate mean?
(a) To agree to political demands.
(b) To relinquish power formally.
(c) To be fired.
(d) To retire.

10. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) An American artist in Paris.
(b) A French immigrant.
(c) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.
(d) A French teacher.

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

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

13. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?
(a) To embrace those with similar tastes.
(b) To embrace those of a serious mind like his own.
(c) To avoid those fond of theaters and dissipation.
(d) To avoid those who did not attend church regularly.

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

15. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?
(a) He did not want to leave his friend, Morse.
(b) He was ill, as was his wife.
(c) He did not think it would affect him.
(d) He was wife was expecting another child.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Antoine Gros die?

3. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?

4. What were omnibuses?

5. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

(see the answer keys)

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