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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded Cooperstown in New York?
(a) James Fenimore Cooper.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper's grandfather.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper's son.
(d) James Fenimore Cooper's father.

2. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Grandma Moses.
(c) John Trumbull.
(d) Degas.

3. What profession did Ralph Waldo Emerson leave prior to going to Paris in 1833?
(a) Artist.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Lawyer.

4. What was the draw of Galignani's for many visiting Americans in Paris?
(a) It was a cheap department store.
(b) It was a art store friendly to visiting Americans.
(c) It was a delightful restaurant.
(d) It was an English bookstore, a gathering place.

5. Who was Antoine Gros?
(a) An art teacher.
(b) A medical teacher.
(c) A law professor.
(d) An art student.

6. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?
(a) United States.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

7. What helped bring more visitors to Paris from the rest of Europe?
(a) New public transit.
(b) New ships.
(c) New railroads.
(d) New vehicles.

8. How did James Jackson Jr. die?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Typhoid fever.

9. Who attacked and beat Charles Sumner to such a degree that he would have pain for much of the rest of his life?
(a) A mugger on the street.
(b) Congressman Brooks.
(c) His wife.
(d) Naval officer William Lynch.

10. What did the American minister to Paris do in the wake of King Louis-Phillipe's abdication?
(a) Ordered all Americans to leave the country.
(b) Waited for orders from the President.
(c) Recognized the new government.
(d) Nothing.

11. To what college did Samuel Morse go?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.

12. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To further his education.
(b) To join friends.
(c) To learn from Parisian artists.
(d) To vacation.

13. How large is Webster's Reply to Hayne by George Healy?
(a) 15 x 27 feet.
(b) 6 x 9 feet.
(c) 30 x 27 feet.
(d) 10 x 14 feet.

14. Who did Mrs. Willard have a visit with upon arriving in Paris?
(a) King Louis-Phillipe.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) General Lafayette.

15. When Morse was twenty-eight, who commissioned him for a portrait?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) John Quincy Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Natty Bumppo?

2. Why was Charles Stratton unique?

3. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?

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

5. What country denied a patent to Morse for his new invention in 1837?

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