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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 helped bring more visitors to Paris from the rest of Europe?
(a) New public transit.
(b) New railroads.
(c) New ships.
(d) New vehicles.

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

3. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The vehicles.
(b) The roads.
(c) The accomadations.
(d) The food.

4. At what university did Samuel Morse teach art after leaving Paris?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) New York University.

5. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To study.
(b) To meet a suitable woman to marry.
(c) To write.
(d) To be free of responsibility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?

3. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?

4. What did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?

5. Who is Natty Bumppo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?

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

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

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

7. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

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

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

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

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