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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 is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.
(b) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.
(c) A millitary jail.
(d) A cruise ship.

2. Who was the queen of Boston society when George Healy was still a budding artist?
(a) Sally Foster Otis.
(b) Mary Cassatt.
(c) Lucretia Morse.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

3. Why did Charles Sumner climb the four hundred steps to the top of Notre Dame?
(a) To prove he could.
(b) To see all of Paris below it.
(c) To see the cathedral.
(d) To get exercise.

4. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To study.
(b) To write.
(c) To meet a suitable woman to marry.
(d) To be free of responsibility.

5. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.
(b) Many showed children in unusual situations.
(c) Many were nudes.
(d) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

2. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

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

4. Who was Richard Rush?

5. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?

8. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?

9. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?

10. How did many of the Americans who arrived in Paris in the 1830s feel about the stringent laws regarding passports?

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