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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. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?
(a) From the styles and art of Paris.
(b) From the newspapers and literature.
(c) From previous travels.
(d) From gossip.

2. Why did Victor Hugo move to Belgium in 1851?
(a) To have the freedom to speak his mind about the new French government.
(b) To escape prosecution.
(c) To join his family.
(d) To aid his health.

3. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?
(a) Charles Sumner.
(b) George Healy.
(c) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(d) John Fenimore Cooper.

4. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?
(a) To further her medical education.
(b) To further her general education.
(c) To further her legal education.
(d) To further her artistic education.

5. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
(a) That of a child.
(b) That of a painter.
(c) That of a blind man.
(d) That of a perfectionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the author of this book compare James Fenimore Cooper's popularity in Paris?

2. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?

3. How did theater help Americans learn French?

4. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?

5. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. What was the primary mode of travel to Europe in the 1830s? What did many of these early travelers think of this mode of transportation?

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

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

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