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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. How many love affairs did Saint-Gaudens admit to having in his Reminiscences before meeting Gussie?

2. What group of artists did Mary Cassatt embrace in 1875?

3. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?

4. What was the profession of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' father?

5. How did Saint-Gaudens meet White?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made the Sargent portrait, Madame X, so controversial in its time?

2. What impact did the Farragut have on Saint-Gaudens career?

3. Why was Archbishop Darboy arrested and executed in 1871?

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

5. What skill did Saint-Gaudens have that many of his fellow students often ask him to share with the class?

6. Why did the Empress Eugenie feel the need to escape from the Tuileries? Who helped her?

7. What were the terms of France's surrender to the Germans in 1871?

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

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

10. What type of paintings did John Singer Sargent paint most often?

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

Who was King Louis-Phillipe? What was the political climate like in Paris during the 1830s? How did this political climate impact Americans in Paris? What was the lifestyle of most Parisians like? How did this lifestyle differ from life in America? What things did the Americans in Paris adopt about the lifestyles of the French? What things did Americans disapprove of in the lifestyles of the French?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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