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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?
(a) One of Queen Victoria.
(b) One of Mrs. Cass.
(c) One of the American minister to France, General Lewis Cass.
(d) One of Mrs. Otis.

2. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
(a) A judge.
(b) A writer.
(c) An artist.
(d) A historian.

3. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?
(a) His name.
(b) His looks.
(c) His charm.
(d) His family history.

4. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?
(a) Oncology.
(b) Pathological research.
(c) Gynecology.
(d) Surgery.

5. What is the Louvre?
(a) A medical school.
(b) An art school.
(c) An art musuem.
(d) An architecture school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people did John Collins Warren offer his son upon his journey to Paris?

2. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?

3. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?

4. Who is Natty Bumppo?

5. What fashion among male Parisians did John Sanderson criticize during his time in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?

2. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?

3. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

4. How did the Americans travel the roads to Paris after arriving in Le Havre?

5. What changes did Louis Napoleon immediately set out to create? For what purpose?

6. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?

7. What famous anti-slavery author toured Paris in 1853? What were her impressions of the city?

8. What did the Americans find unusual about the way in which Parisians took their meals?

9. Who was James McNeill Whistler? In what country did he spend most of his childhood? What did others think of Whistler during his time in Paris?

10. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?

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