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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two specialties did the Ecole de Medecine offer its students?
(a) Surgery and gynecology.
(b) Surgery and pediatrics.
(c) Surgery and general medicine.
(d) General medicine and geriatric medicine.

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

3. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell go to Paris?
(a) To further her legal education.
(b) To further her medical education.
(c) To further her artistic education.
(d) To further her general education.

4. What was James Fenimore Cooper's most well known novel prior to his travels to Paris?
(a) The Ways of the Hour.
(b) The Last of the Mohicans.
(c) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers.
(d) The Deerslayer.

5. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?
(a) George Healy.
(b) William Morris Hunt.
(c) Charles Sumner.
(d) Richard Morris Hunt.

6. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?
(a) Many displayed horrific battle scenes.
(b) Many showed children in unusual situations.
(c) Many were nudes.
(d) Many showed acts considered vulgar to Americans.

7. Who was Benjamin Franklin?
(a) A French teacher.
(b) An American diplomat, politician, writer, and inventor.
(c) A French immigrant.
(d) An American artist in Paris.

8. What is Morse Code?
(a) A code the Americans used during the Revolutionary War.
(b) A means of communication for deaf people.
(c) Electrical signals that translate into dots and dashes.
(d) A language that allows artists to hide messages in paintings.

9. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson say was one of the chief draws of Paris to young men?
(a) The large number of single women.
(b) The immense number of churches in the city.
(c) Social freedoms.
(d) The availability of cheap education.

10. How did Samuel Morse's wife, Lucretia, die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Smallpox.

11. How did theater help Americans learn French?
(a) The drama forced them to know French to understand the plot.
(b) They would bring an English copy of the play to follow along.
(c) Hearing the language constantly helped them figure out the words.
(d) The words were spoken slower than in everyday conversation.

12. 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) Recognized the new government.
(c) Waited for orders from the President.
(d) Nothing.

13. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
(a) To be free of responsibility.
(b) To meet a suitable woman to marry.
(c) To write.
(d) To study.

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

15. What did Americans find unusual about the length of a day in Paris?
(a) The days were much longer in the winter.
(b) The days were much shorter in the summer.
(c) The sun shone later in the day during the summer.
(d) The sun shone earlier in the day during summer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Richard Rush?

2. Who was Louis Napoleon?

3. What did Charles Sumner find surprising about the Sorbonne?

4. What requirement did the Ecole de Medecine have that American medical schools did not?

5. What profession was Elizabeth Blackwell a member of?

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