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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion did Gussie Saint-Gaudens' parents assume her new husband was based on the nationality of his parents?
(a) Protestant.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Mormon.
(d) Catholic.

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

3. Where did Parisians receive news of the battles taking place throughout the countryside during the days leading up to the siege of Paris?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Incoming casualties.
(d) Word of mouth.

4. Of what battle was Admiral David Galsgow Farragut best remembered?
(a) Battle of the Gulf of Mexico.
(b) Battle of the Atlantic.
(c) Battle of Yorktown.
(d) Battle of Mobile Bay.

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

6. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?
(a) Impressionists.
(b) Portraitures.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Landscapes.

7. How old was Augustus Saint-Gaudens when his father apprenticed him to a cameo cutter?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Sixteen.

8. 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) Grant.
(b) Lee.
(c) Farragut.
(d) Sherman.

9. What famous work did John Singer Sargent create during the early part of the 20th century?
(a) The murals at the Boston Public Library.
(b) A portrait of John Quincy Adams.
(c) A mural at Madison Square Gardens.
(d) The portrait of Madame X.

10. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?
(a) An art master.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A writer.
(d) A medical professor.

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

12. Why did Saint-Gaudens apply to create the Farragut memorial?
(a) For Farragut.
(b) For pride of country.
(c) For his wife.
(d) For the money and the possible boost to his career.

13. At the request of Theodore Roosevelt, Saint-Gaudens created what?
(a) Designs for the Presidential seal.
(b) Designs for United States paper money.
(c) Designs for the CIA's logo.
(d) Designs for United States gold coinage.

14. How high above New York Harbor does the torch on Lady Liberty stand?
(a) 240 feet.
(b) 350 feet.
(c) 300 feet.
(d) 200 feet.

15. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?
(a) Gussie Saint-Gaudens.
(b) John Singer Sargent.
(c) Stanford White.
(d) Richard Watson Gilder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Raoul Rigault?

2. What was considered the most important aspect of a cameo's success?

3. Where was Mary Cassatt born?

4. When did Washburne win election into the Congress?

5. For what reasons did Gussie often avoid social situations early in her marriage?

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