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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Morse Code?
(a) A means of communication for deaf people.
(b) A language that allows artists to hide messages in paintings.
(c) A code the Americans used during the Revolutionary War.
(d) Electrical signals that translate into dots and dashes.

3. What were omnibuses?
(a) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.
(b) Large wheelchairs.
(c) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.
(d) Double rider bikes.

4. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Grandma Moses.
(c) John Trumbull.
(d) Degas.

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

6. Why did Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?
(a) To escape prosecution.
(b) To have the freedom to speak his mind about the new French government.
(c) To aid his health.
(d) To join his family.

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

8. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) His wife.
(b) Naval officer William Lynch.
(c) Congressman Brooks.
(d) A mugger on the street.

9. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Herman Melville.
(c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(d) Henry Thoreau.

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

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

12. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To write.
(b) To meet a suitable woman to marry.
(c) To be free of responsibility.
(d) To study.

13. How did theater help Americans learn French?
(a) They would bring an English copy of the play to follow along.
(b) Hearing the language constantly helped them figure out the words.
(c) The words were spoken slower than in everyday conversation.
(d) The drama forced them to know French to understand the plot.

14. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?

2. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

3. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

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

5. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

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