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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. Which two famous artists in Paris were impacted by the fire in Chicago in 1871?
(a) George Healy and Mary Cassatt.
(b) George Healy and Samuel Morse.
(c) George Catlin and Henri Pill.
(d) Mary Cassatt and Samuel Morse.

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

3. How did John Singer Sargent pay his expenses early in his career?
(a) Working as a teacher.
(b) His mother's money.
(c) His father's money.
(d) His wife's money.

4. What social pastime did Augustus Saint-Gaudens greatly enjoy?
(a) Theater.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Dining out.
(d) Opera.

5. Of what battle was Admiral David Galsgow Farragut best remembered?
(a) Battle of the Atlantic.
(b) Battle of Yorktown.
(c) Battle of the Gulf of Mexico.
(d) Battle of Mobile Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reasons did Gussie often avoid social situations early in her marriage?

2. What political office did people want Washburne to run for after he left Paris?

3. What was the overwhelming feeling of most Americans who were stuck in Paris during the siege?

4. How did Saint-Gaudens meet White?

5. Who designed Lady Liberty?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Archbishop Darboy arrested and executed in 1871?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What made the Sargent portrait, Madame X, so controversial in its time?

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

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