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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?
(a) Working without companionship.
(b) Singing as they worked.
(c) Working in complete silence.
(d) Reciting poetry while working.

2. What was the profession of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' father?
(a) Shoe store owner.
(b) Architect.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Janitor.

3. What fellow artist did Augustus Saint-Gaudens often exchange work with?
(a) Carroll Beckwith.
(b) John Singer Sargent.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Mary Cassatt.

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

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

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

7. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?
(a) American Marines.
(b) Italian army.
(c) National Guard of France.
(d) German army.

8. What painting did John Singer Sargent create of his art teacher?
(a) Carolus-Duran.
(b) Diana.
(c) Farragut.
(d) Madame X.

9. Who descended on the Moulton Estate on May 9, 1871?
(a) Communards.
(b) German military.
(c) Communists.
(d) Police.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. How many siblings did Mary Cassatt have?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who designed Lady Liberty?

2. Who was Richard Morris Hunt?

3. When did Washburne win election into the Congress?

4. Who discovered artist James Earle Fraser?

5. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?

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