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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 what reason did Mason Warren return to Paris three times in his life after his initial student days?
(a) To further his studies.
(b) Poor health.
(c) To visit old friends.
(d) To show it to his children.

2. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?
(a) Hotel Dieu.
(b) Ecole de Medecine.
(c) Notre Dame.
(d) St. Catherine's.

3. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
(a) Samuel Morse.
(b) George Healy.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) Dr. Thomas Evans.

4. Where was Morse working a great deal of the time during his stay in Paris?
(a) The Sorbonne.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Palace Royale.
(d) École des Beaux-Arts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

2. What were the June Days of 1848?

3. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

4. Who was William Wells Brown?

5. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?

4. What were some of the biggest complaints against King Louis-Phillipe in 1847 that eventually led to the king going into exile?

5. Who was Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis? Why was he important to Americans who went to Paris in the 1830s?

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

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

8. What kind of careers would most of the American doctors who trained in Paris have?

9. What was the genre of James Fenimore Cooper's first novel? Why was it not successful?

10. What famous painting did Healy complete in Paris in 1850? What American political event did this painting portray?

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