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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 invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?
(a) The telephone.
(b) Pig latin.
(c) The transatlantic cable.
(d) The telegraph.

2. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?
(a) Less than a hundred years.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) More than three hundred years.
(d) Two hundred years.

3. Who was Louis Napoleon?
(a) Cousin of King Louis-Phillipe.
(b) The new president of the Republic.
(c) The new American minister.
(d) The new king of France.

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

5. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Degas.
(c) Grandma Moses.
(d) John Trumbull.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?

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

4. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?

5. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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