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

2. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Preacher.

3. For what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?
(a) To visit old friends.
(b) To show it to his children.
(c) Poor health.
(d) To further his studies.

4. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The availability of cheap education.
(b) The large number of single women.
(c) Social freedoms.
(d) The immense number of churches in the city.

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

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

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

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

9. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Cats.
(b) Hamsters.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Fish.

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

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

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

13. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Hotel Dieu.
(b) St. Catherine's.
(c) Notre Dame.
(d) Ecole de Medecine.

14. 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 see the cathedral.
(c) To get exercise.
(d) To prove he could.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?

2. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?

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

4. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

5. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

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