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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. Who is Natty Bumppo?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes' cousin.
(b) George Healy's uncle.
(c) A character in several James Fenimore Cooper's novels.
(d) Samuel Morse's daughter.

2. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?
(a) Too many baths.
(b) Eating outdoors.
(c) Under cooked food.
(d) A lack of proper hygiene and sanitation.

3. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) Naval officer William Lynch.
(b) A mugger on the street.
(c) Congressman Brooks.
(d) His wife.

4. Who was Antoine Gros?
(a) An art teacher.
(b) A medical teacher.
(c) An art student.
(d) A law professor.

5. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?
(a) An article written by Daguerre.
(b) Morse's account of a visit with Daguerre that his brothers had published.
(c) An article written by a friend of Daguerre for the New York Observer.
(d) A daguerreotype sent to the New York Observer by Morse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does abdicate mean?

2. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?

3. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?

4. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?

5. 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?

6. In Morse's disappointment with his art career, what project did he turn his attention to? How did this project change the way people communicated at the time?

7. What epidemic came to Paris in the spring of 1832 that forced many Americans to leave town?

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

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

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

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