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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What buildings were set on fire by unknown arsonists in Paris in the spring of 1871?
(a) Palais de Justice and the courthouse.
(b) Hotel de Ville and the Louvre.
(c) Hotel de Ville and the Palais de Justice.
(d) The Louvre and the courthouse.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which two famous artists in Paris were impacted by the fire in Chicago in 1871?
(a) George Healy and Mary Cassatt.
(b) Mary Cassatt and Samuel Morse.
(c) George Healy and Samuel Morse.
(d) George Catlin and Henri Pill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Sherman.
(d) Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered artist James Earle Fraser?

2. What religion did Gussie Saint-Gaudens' parents assume her new husband was based on the nationality of his parents?

3. 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?

4. Who marched into Paris on March 1, 1871?

5. On what committee did Washburne serve as chairman?

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