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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what committee did Washburne serve as chairman?
(a) Committee on Appropriations.
(b) Committee on Commerce.
(c) Committee on Finance.
(d) Committee on Foreign Affairs.

2. Where was Mary Cassatt born?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Georgia.

3. For what reason did Henry Adams hire Saint-Gaudens?
(a) To create a statue of his wife, Clover.
(b) To create a statue of John Adams.
(c) To create a statue of Henry Adams himself.
(d) To create a statue of John Quincy Adams.

4. For what reason did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay for a group of Mormon artists to receive training in Paris?
(a) So they could paint murals in homes of church leaders.
(b) So they could spread the word of their religion in Paris.
(c) So they could paint murals in the Temple at Salt Lake City.
(d) So they could recruit new members of the church.

5. Who did Washburne help leave Paris at the beginning of the trouble with Germany?
(a) Italians.
(b) Germans.
(c) Americans with German ancestry.
(d) All Americans.

6. What medium did Saint-Gaudens use to create the initial image of Farragut for the memorial?
(a) Iron.
(b) Clay.
(c) Copper.
(d) Plaster.

7. What was Vernon Lee's profession?
(a) Novelist and essayist.
(b) Artist.
(c) Art critic.
(d) Psychologist.

8. What dance shocked Mark Twain upon his short visit to Paris?
(a) Can-Can.
(b) Ballet.
(c) Tango.
(d) Waltz.

9. What was Innocents Abroad?
(a) Mark Twain's favorite theater show.
(b) Mark Twain's most famous short story.
(c) Mark Twain's favorite poem.
(d) Mark Twain's best selling book during his lifetime.

10. Who was among the artists that John Singer Sargent admired?
(a) Monet.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Cassatt.
(d) Degas.

11. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only for a year.
(d) Only for a few months.

12. Who commonly wore cameos during the time in which Saint-Gaudens was an apprentice in the art of cutting cameos?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Artists.
(d) Actors.

13. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. return to Paris in 1886?
(a) To visit old friends.
(b) To attend the opera.
(c) To revisit some of the places that had such a strong impact on his life.
(d) To show his daughter the magic and glory of Paris.

14. How old was Mary Cassatt when she made her debut as an Impressionist?
(a) 31.
(b) 34.
(c) 44.
(d) 21.

15. From what illness did Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, suffer?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Muscular dystrophy.
(c) Bright's disease.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the government of France on April 4, 1871?

2. Where did Mary Putnam spend one night during the barrage of the Left Bank?

3. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?

4. Who was Raoul Rigault?

5. What episode seems to have created some discord in Saint-Gaudens marriage in 1889?

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