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

2. How high above New York Harbor does the torch on Lady Liberty stand?
(a) 200 feet.
(b) 300 feet.
(c) 240 feet.
(d) 350 feet.

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

4. Why did Washburne move to Paris in 1870?
(a) He was exiled from America.
(b) To teach.
(c) For education.
(d) He was the new American minister.

5. Where was Richard Morris Hunt trained?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Saint-Gaudens apply to create the Farragut memorial?

2. What religion did Gussie Saint-Gaudens' parents assume her new husband was based on the nationality of his parents?

3. Who seized more than a hundred cannon and fortified themselves on the heights of Montmartre?

4. Who posed for the legs for the memorial statue of Farragut?

5. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Augusta Homer? Why did she live in Rome? Who did she meet there?

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

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

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

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

8. What event took place in Paris in 1867 that brought Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Paris?

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

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

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