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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. Where was the first children's hospital opened?

2. How did James Jackson Jr. die?

3. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?

4. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

5. How much older than the discovery of America by Columbus was the cathedral at Rouen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?

3. Who was Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis? Why was he important to Americans who went to Paris in the 1830s?

4. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?

5. What famous painting did Healy complete in Paris in 1850? What American political event did this painting portray?

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

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

8. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

9. What did Emma Willard note about the galleries in Paris that she found inspiring?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

1) Siege of Paris

2) American Civil War

3) Laying of the Transatlantic Cable

4) Invention of the telegraph.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss in an essay one of the following, describing the location both as it appeared to the American travelers in the 1830s as well as some of its history and its modern day existence:

1) Palais Royale

2) Louvre

3) Garden of the Tuileries

4) Bourse.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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