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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 was the Marquis de Lafayette?

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

3. What was the largest building in America in the 1830s?

4. Besides creating portraits, what other means of making money did Samuel Morse pursue before moving to Paris?

5. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?

4. What changes did Louis Napoleon immediately set out to create? For what purpose?

5. For what reason did Americans prior to the 1830s embark to Paris? Who were these Americans?

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

7. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?

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

9. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

10. What famous painting did Healy complete in Paris in 1850? What American political event did this painting portray?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who was King Louis-Phillipe? What was the political climate like in Paris during the 1830s? How did this political climate impact Americans in Paris? What was the lifestyle of most Parisians like? How did this lifestyle differ from life in America? What things did the Americans in Paris adopt about the lifestyles of the French? What things did Americans disapprove of in the lifestyles of the French?

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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