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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) George Healy.
(b) Charles Sumner.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

2. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?
(a) Melancthon T. Woolsey.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) David Farragut.
(d) John Sanderson.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?
(a) From gossip.
(b) From the newspapers and literature.
(c) From previous travels.
(d) From the styles and art of Paris.

9. Where was the first children's hospital opened?
(a) Paris.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) London.
(d) Boston.

10. 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.

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

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

13. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(b) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(c) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.
(d) It allowed women to study with men.

14. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To learn from Parisian artists.
(b) To join friends.
(c) To vacation.
(d) To further his education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

2. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?

3. Who was Louis Napoleon?

4. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?

5. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

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