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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. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) Crowds marched in protest.
(b) A new Revolution began.
(c) President Polk died.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.

2. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?
(a) It allowed blacks to study in segregrated classrooms.
(b) It allowed women to study with men.
(c) It allowed blacks to study alongside whites.
(d) It allowed women to study in segregrated classrooms.

3. What were omnibuses?
(a) Large wheelchairs.
(b) Double-decker boats that traveled the Seine.
(c) Double rider bikes.
(d) Giant, horse-drawn public conveyances.

4. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Typhoid fever.

5. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?
(a) It was a delightful restaurant.
(b) It was an English bookstore, a gathering place.
(c) It was a cheap department store.
(d) It was a art store friendly to visiting Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

2. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

3. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?

4. What is Morse Code?

5. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason did Americans prior to the 1830s embark to Paris? Who were these Americans?

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

3. What did Emma Willard note about the galleries in Paris that she found inspiring?

4. On September 14, 1851, what American author died? Who was among those who memorialized him at a tribute in New York?

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

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

7. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

8. What invention did the artist Delacroix say marked the death of art? Who invented it?

9. What were some of the professions of those who traveled to Paris in the 1830s? What reason did they have to travel to Paris?

10. 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?

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