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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. Who was John Singer Sargent?
(a) Composer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Actor.

2. How old was Mary Cassatt when she made her debut as an Impressionist?
(a) 21.
(b) 44.
(c) 34.
(d) 31.

3. Where did Parisians receive news of the battles taking place throughout the countryside during the days leading up to the siege of Paris?
(a) Incoming casualties.
(b) Word of mouth.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Newspapers.

4. What buildings were set on fire by unknown arsonists in Paris in the spring of 1871?
(a) The Louvre and the courthouse.
(b) Palais de Justice and the courthouse.
(c) Hotel de Ville and the Palais de Justice.
(d) Hotel de Ville and the Louvre.

5. What did Washburne think of pronouncements from the government at Versailles?
(a) It was ridiculous.
(b) It was very smart.
(c) It was the law.
(d) It was rubbish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality was Augustus Saint-Gaudens' mother?

2. Who was Stanford White?

3. Who did Washburne help leave Paris at the beginning of the trouble with Germany?

4. What episode seems to have created some discord in Saint-Gaudens marriage in 1889?

5. How did John Singer Sargent pay his expenses early in his career?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused some of the delays with Saint-Gaudens' creation of the Farragut?

2. What caused a second exodus out of Paris in 1871?

3. What were the terms of France's surrender to the Germans in 1871?

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

5. For what reason did General Louis Trochu refuse to allow people to leave Paris during his army's siege of the city?

6. What accomplishment did Elihu Washburne's maternal grandfather complete that made Washburne's mother deeply proud of him?

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

8. Who was Mary Cassatt's most loyal companion? How did she die? How did this impact Cassatt?

9. What is considered Augustus Saint-Gaudens' greatest monument?

10. 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?

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