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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. 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) Samuel Morse.
(d) Thomas Edison.

2. Who descended on the Moulton Estate on May 9, 1871?
(a) Communards.
(b) German military.
(c) Communists.
(d) Police.

3. For whose release did Washburne fight for in April of 1871?
(a) Monseigneur Georges Darboy.
(b) Raoul Rigault.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

4. With whom did Mary Cassatt study art?
(a) John Singer Sargent.
(b) Thomas Couture.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis.

5. For what reason did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay for a group of Mormon artists to receive training in Paris?
(a) So they could spread the word of their religion in Paris.
(b) So they could recruit new members of the church.
(c) So they could paint murals in the Temple at Salt Lake City.
(d) So they could paint murals in homes of church leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among the works Saint-Gaudens created during his final days in Paris, which portrayed a controversial Civil War figure still living who posed for several sittings for Saint-Gaudens to create a bust to help int he creation of a statue?

2. Where did Mary Putnam spend one night during the barrage of the Left Bank?

3. Where did Augustus Saint-Gaudens teach art for a time?

4. What habit did Saint-Gaudens' teachers have that he carried on into his own work?

5. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What famous American politician visited Paris in 1878 upon the resignation of Elihu Washburne?

6. For what reason did the French decide to commission the statue, Liberty Lighting the World, to make as a gift to America?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What was Augustus Saint-Gaudens' relationship to Davida Clark?

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