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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 profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Artist.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?
(a) Mount Vernon.
(b) The Capitol.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The White House.

3. What was Charles Stratton's stage name?
(a) Andre the Giant.
(b) The Rock.
(c) Tom Thumb.
(d) Tiny Tim.

4. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) President Polk died.
(b) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.
(c) Crowds marched in protest.
(d) A new Revolution began.

5. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
(a) Cousin to the French king.
(b) A French aristocrat and American Revolutionary hero.
(c) A French theater star.
(d) Leader of the French government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Louvre?

2. What did James Fenimore Cooper mean when he said France was a country of dirt and gilding?

3. What did Healy use to get some of the faces in his painting, Webster's Repy to Hayne, correct?

4. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?

5. How large is Webster's Reply to Hayne by George Healy?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

4. 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?

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

6. What invention did the artist Delacroix say marked the death of art? Who invented it?

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

8. What were some of the professions of those who traveled to Paris in the 1830s? What reason did they have to travel to Paris?

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

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

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