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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. What happened on February 22, 1847?
2. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?
3. What language did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte prefer to speak when he did not want people to understand what he was saying?
4. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
5. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?
2. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?
3. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?
4. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?
5. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?
6. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?
7. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?
8. What did Emma Willard note about the galleries in Paris that she found inspiring?
9. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?
10. What were some of the professions of those who traveled to Paris in the 1830s? What reason did they have to travel to Paris?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who helped Empress Eugenie escape Paris as France became a republic? For what reason did this person help the Empress? What might have happened to the Empress without the aid of this person? In what other ways did Americans impact Paris during this political upheaval? For what reason? How might history have been written differently without the aid of these Americans?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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