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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 American minister to Paris in 1787?

2. What did Healy use to get some of the faces in his painting, Webster's Repy to Hayne, correct?

3. What American building did Pierre-Charles L'Enfant design?

4. For shat portrait did George Healy win his first medal at the Paris Salon?

5. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?

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

6. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?

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

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

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

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

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 is the Farragut? Who created it? What struggles did this person undergo in creating this piece of art? How did it impact his personal life? How did it impact his professional life? Where is the Farragut now? What other works did this artist create? Where are some of these works displayed? What impact did this artist have on the art world during his lifetime? What impact did Paris have on this artist and his career?

Essay Topic 3

What is the Ecole de Medicine? Why did many Americans chose to attend medical school in Paris? How did French medical training contrast with American medical training? How did medical protocols compare with American? Who were the teachers at the Ecole de Medicine? How did their techniques differ from what Americans had previously been taught?

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