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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) An uprising among the poor.
(c) A political protest.
(d) A Revolutionary War reenactment.

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

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

6. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?
(a) Blousy slacks.
(b) High pompadour haircuts.
(c) Beards and mustaches.
(d) Oversized shirts.

7. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.

8. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) George Healy.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Dr. Thomas Evans.
(d) Samuel Morse.

9. 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.

10. What is the Louvre?
(a) A medical school.
(b) An art school.
(c) An art musuem.
(d) An architecture school.

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

12. Who was Louis Napoleon?
(a) The new American minister.
(b) The new king of France.
(c) The new president of the Republic.
(d) Cousin of King Louis-Phillipe.

13. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?
(a) The Sears Tower.
(b) The Capitol in Washington.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) The White House.

14. How large is Webster's Reply to Hayne by George Healy?
(a) 10 x 14 feet.
(b) 15 x 27 feet.
(c) 6 x 9 feet.
(d) 30 x 27 feet.

15. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) A fictional novel about slavery.
(b) A book of short stories.
(c) A book of poetry.
(d) A nonfiction book about slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

2. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?

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. For what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?

5. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

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