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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author mention suffered terrible seasickness on his journey to Paris?

2. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?

3. By what title was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte often referred?

4. Who was P.T.Barnum?

5. What was the first news article to appear about the daguerreotype in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Americans travel the roads to Paris after arriving in Le Havre?

2. What one commission did Samuel Morse hope to get that he did not receive? Why did he not get it?

3. Who was James McNeill Whistler? In what country did he spend most of his childhood? What did others think of Whistler during his time in Paris?

4. What epidemic came to Paris in the spring of 1832 that forced many Americans to leave town?

5. What did the Americans find unusual about the way in which Parisians took their meals?

6. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

7. How did many of the Americans who arrived in Paris in the 1830s feel about the stringent laws regarding passports?

8. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?

9. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?

10. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following people in an essay using quotes from the book to support your conclusions:

1) Charles Sumner

2) John Sanderson

3) Nathaniel Willis

4) Emma Willard.

Essay Topic 2

What was the political atmosphere like in Paris in the 1830s? What did the traveling Americans know about Paris before they arrived there? How did the stories of Paris compare to the reality of Paris for many of these American travelers? What are some of the adjectives these American travelers used in describing Paris upon first sight? Why did some dislike Paris so much so that they moved on to other destinations? Why did other fall in love with Paris almost from the first moments?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Americans want to go to Paris? Who was among the first Americans to travel to Paris in the 1830s? What was the main purpose for most of these people in the 1830s? What was the political atmosphere like in America during this time? How much influence did this have on the motives of those traveling to Paris? What was the trip to Paris like? What were some of the discomforts of this trip? What were some of the pleasures of this trip?

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