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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 Finance.
(b) Committee on Appropriations.
(c) Committee on Commerce.
(d) Committee on Foreign Affairs.

2. What did Washburne think of pronouncements from the government at Versailles?
(a) It was very smart.
(b) It was rubbish.
(c) It was ridiculous.
(d) It was the law.

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

4. What political office did people want Washburne to run for after he left Paris?
(a) Congress.
(b) Governor.
(c) President.
(d) State senate.

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

6. Where did Washburne make his first stand as a lawyer?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Illinois.

7. 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 recruit new members of the church.
(d) So they could paint murals in the Temple at Salt Lake City.

8. Who was Mark Twain?
(a) American writer.
(b) French actor.
(c) American actor.
(d) French writer.

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

10. For what reasons did Gussie often avoid social situations early in her marriage?
(a) She did not like the French.
(b) She was claustrophobic.
(c) She did not like Augustus' friends.
(d) She was hard of hearing and knew little French.

11. Among the works Saint-Gaudens created during his final days in Paris, which portrayed a controversial Civil War figure still living who posed for several sittings for Saint-Gaudens to create a bust to help int he creation of a statue?
(a) Farragut.
(b) Lee.
(c) Grant.
(d) Sherman.

12. Where did Augustus Saint-Gaudens teach art for a time?
(a) New York University.
(b) Julliard.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) The Art Students League.

13. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The American Civil War.

14. What nationality was Augustus Saint-Gaudens' mother?
(a) American.
(b) Irish.
(c) English.
(d) French.

15. Whose work filled more than half of the American exhibit space in the Palais des Machines at the Exposition Universelle?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?

2. How many love affairs did Saint-Gaudens admit to having in his Reminiscences before meeting Gussie?

3. Who was Richard Morris Hunt?

4. What was the overwhelming feeling of most Americans who were stuck in Paris during the siege?

5. For what reason did Henry Adams hire Saint-Gaudens?

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