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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. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 110 miles.
(c) 150 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

2. Who was P.T.Barnum?
(a) A New York showman.
(b) A French artist.
(c) A New York doctor.
(d) A French showman.

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

4. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To join friends.
(b) To learn from Parisian artists.
(c) To vacation.
(d) To further his education.

5. What was one of the great virtues of Morse's project, Gallery of the Louvre?
(a) It shows a great number of masterworks all together.
(b) It shows a rare portrait of James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) It shows a view of the Louvre many people will never see.
(d) It shows a great number of American visitors to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country denied a patent to Morse for his new invention in 1837?

2. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?

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

4. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?

5. To what college did Samuel Morse go?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

5. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?

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

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

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

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

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

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