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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 did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(b) Waited for orders from the President.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Recognized the new government.

2. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) General Lafayette.
(d) Samuel Morse.

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

4. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) A French immigrant.
(b) An American artist in Paris.
(c) A French teacher.
(d) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.

5. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much longer in the winter.
(b) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(c) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.
(d) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem did American doctors, and/or their patients, have in regards to female patients that was not shared by their Paris equivalent in 1830?

3. What does abdicate mean?

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

5. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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