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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 two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
2. What did reviewers of James Fenimore Cooper's writing often compare his eye for description to?
3. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
4. Where did many Americans in the 1830s get their information on Paris and its culture?
5. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?
2. In Morse's disappointment with his art career, what project did he turn his attention to? How did this project change the way people communicated at the time?
3. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?
4. 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?
5. What was one of the most memorable landmarks the Americans would often stop to see on their way into Paris in the 1830s? Why were many Americans so impressed by this sight?
6. What famous painting did Healy complete in Paris in 1850? What American political event did this painting portray?
7. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?
8. What did the Americans find unusual about the way in which Parisians took their meals?
9. What epidemic came to Paris in the spring of 1832 that forced many Americans to leave town?
10. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
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?
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