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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?
(a) Gussie's father-in-law.
(b) Augustus' brother.
(c) Augustus' cousin.
(d) Gussie's brother.

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

3. What is an atelier?
(a) Art workshop.
(b) Art studio.
(c) Art critic.
(d) Art teacher.

4. How old was John Singer Sargent when he knew what he wanted to be?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Sixteen.

5. What ailment left Gussie Saint-Gaudens feeling isolated late in life?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Muteness.

6. What experience did Washburne have before being sent to Paris?
(a) Congress committees dealing with foreign affairs.
(b) Congress committees dealing with French affairs.
(c) Ministry in Italy.
(d) None.

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

8. Where did Mary Putnam spend one night during the barrage of the Left Bank?
(a) The banks of the Siene.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Under the Pantheon.
(d) The Sorbonne.

9. Where was Richard Morris Hunt trained?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Cornell.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

10. Who discovered artist James Earle Fraser?
(a) John Singer Sargent.
(b) Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Samuel Morse.

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

12. For what reason did Healy travel to Germany in 1876?
(a) To paint a landscape.
(b) To visit friends.
(c) To attend a new art class.
(d) To paint Otto von Bismarck.

13. In 1919, Gussie Saint-Gaudens had what turned into the Saint-Gaudens Memorial?
(a) Saint-Gaudens' apartment in New York City.
(b) Saint-Gaudens' house in Connecticut.
(c) Saint-Gaudens' flat and studio in Paris.
(d) Saint-Gaudens' home and studio in Cornish, New Hampshire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Washburne win election into the Congress?

2. 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?

3. Who was among the artists that John Singer Sargent admired?

4. What huge political event was taking place when Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a cameo cutter apprentice?

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

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