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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. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?

2. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

3. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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

5. With whom did James Fenimore Cooper walk the entire circumference of the city on foot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What famous anti-slavery author toured Paris in 1853? What were her impressions of the city?

3. What kind of careers would most of the American doctors who trained in Paris have?

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

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

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

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

8. What invention did the artist Delacroix say marked the death of art? Who invented it?

9. 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?

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

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

Who was Elihu Washburne? What was his role in Paris? Why did Washburne not flee Paris along with other Americans before the Siege of Paris? How did Washburne help many Germans return to their country during the war? For what reason? How did Washburne arrange for the evacuation of many Americans from Paris in the days before the Siege of Paris began? How did the Siege of Paris impact Washburne's political career?

Essay Topic 3

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

1) Ambition

2) Art

3) Medicine

4) Relationships.

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