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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 Benjamin Franklin?

2. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?

3. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?

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

5. What was thought to be a cause for the spread of diseases such as cholera?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?

3. 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?

4. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?

5. What was the genre of James Fenimore Cooper's first novel? Why was it not successful?

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

7. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

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

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

10. On September 14, 1851, what American author died? Who was among those who memorialized him at a tribute in New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What illness did August Saint-Gaudens suffer later in his life? Why did this illness cause Saint-Gaudens to fall into a dark depression? On what works was Saint-Gaudens working at the time? Why did he insist they be bronzed in Paris? Where did Saint-Gaudens move in July of 1900? for what reason? With whom would Saint-Gaudens live out the rest of his life? What was the Paris Saint-Gaudens left behind like? What influence did Paris continue to have on Americans? What influence does Paris have on Americans now?

Essay Topic 3

What were some of the social problems Americans first noticed about the culture of Paris? How did these social problems reflect similar problems in America? How were they different? Was there a similar separation of races in Paris as there was in America? Did slavery exist in Paris? How did this impact those Americans accustomed to racial inequality?

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