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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 was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?
2. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?
3. For what reason did George Healy return to America after eight years in 1842?
4. What type of artist did George Healy long to be?
5. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?
2. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?
3. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?
4. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?
5. What changes did Louis Napoleon immediately set out to create? For what purpose?
6. How did the Americans travel the roads to Paris after arriving in Le Havre?
7. What was the primary mode of travel to Europe in the 1830s? What did many of these early travelers think of this mode of transportation?
8. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?
9. What was the genre of James Fenimore Cooper's first novel? Why was it not successful?
10. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What impact did many Americans who had visited and perhaps received education in Paris have on America upon their return? How did Charles Sumner impact politics before and during the Civil War? How did Healy impact the art world with his works of art commissioned by King Louis-Phillipe? How were Cooper's novels impacted by his time in Paris? How did Morse's time in Paris impact his invention of the telegraph? How did the telegraph impact the world?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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