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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 did Washburne make his first stand as a lawyer?

2. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?

3. What fellow artist did Augustus Saint-Gaudens often exchange work with?

4. What famous politician was a friend of Washburne's?

5. Who was Stanford White?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Paris Commune? How was it connected to communism?

2. Who was Elihu Washburne? Why did he refuse to leave Paris in 1870 when troops began to descend on Paris?

3. For what reason did the French decide to commission the statue, Liberty Lighting the World, to make as a gift to America?

4. What is significant about the arrival of Isadora Duncan in Paris in 1901?

5. For what reason did General Louis Trochu refuse to allow people to leave Paris during his army's siege of the city?

6. Why was the Eiffel Tower dubbed the Tower of Babel before it was even constructed?

7. Who was Augusta Homer? Why did she live in Rome? Who did she meet there?

8. What caused some of the delays with Saint-Gaudens' creation of the Farragut?

9. Who was Mary Cassatt's most loyal companion? How did she die? How did this impact Cassatt?

10. What reasons did Augustus Saint-Gaudens give friends for not enlisting in the French military in 1870?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

1) Ambition

2) Art

3) Medicine

4) Relationships.

Essay Topic 2

How did the change in transatlantic transportation change the immigration of Americans to Paris? What else seems to have impacted the movement of Americans from America to Paris? What were some of the main reasons these Americans traveled to Paris? Who was George Healy? How did he become acquainted with King Louis-Phillipe? What paintings did the king ask Healy to create? Who are among some of the famous people Healy painted during this time period?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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