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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 did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

2. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

3. Who was P.T.Barnum?

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

5. What did his teacher, Pierre-Charles--Alexandre Louis, encourage James Jackson, Jr. to pursue in his medical education?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some of the biggest complaints against King Louis-Phillipe in 1847 that eventually led to the king going into exile?

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

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

5. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?

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

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

8. For what reason did Americans prior to the 1830s embark to Paris? Who were these Americans?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who helped Empress Eugenie escape Paris as France became a republic? For what reason did this person help the Empress? What might have happened to the Empress without the aid of this person? In what other ways did Americans impact Paris during this political upheaval? For what reason? How might history have been written differently without the aid of these Americans?

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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