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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 Mary Putnam spend one night during the barrage of the Left Bank?
(a) Under the Pantheon.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) The banks of the Siene.

2. Where did Augustus Saint-Gaudens teach art for a time?
(a) The Art Students League.
(b) New York University.
(c) Julliard.
(d) Columbia University.

3. What writer became a close friend to Saint-Gaudens, causing him great grief when the writer died in 1885?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Charles Nordhoff.

4. What happened when Lillie Moulton attempted to get a passport in March of 1871?
(a) She was disrespected.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She was denied.
(d) She was arrested.

5. Whose work filled more than half of the American exhibit space in the Palais des Machines at the Exposition Universelle?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Samuel Morse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social pastime did Augustus Saint-Gaudens greatly enjoy?

2. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?

3. What famous work did John Singer Sargent create during the early part of the 20th century?

4. Who was Mark Twain?

5. For whose release did Washburne fight for in April of 1871?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason did Healy and his family choose to return to Paris in 1871?

2. What reasons did Augustus Saint-Gaudens give friends for not enlisting in the French military in 1870?

3. What was the American Ambulance? Who created it?

4. Who was among some Americans who returned to Paris after many years to reflect on the impact the city had on their lives and careers?

5. What was the Paris Commune? How was it connected to communism?

6. Why did the Empress Eugenie feel the need to escape from the Tuileries? Who helped her?

7. For what reasons did John Singer Sargent choose to make his home in Paris in 1874?

8. What skill did Saint-Gaudens have that many of his fellow students often ask him to share with the class?

9. Who was Elihu Washburne? Why did he refuse to leave Paris in 1870 when troops began to descend on Paris?

10. What is significant about the arrival of Isadora Duncan in Paris in 1901?

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