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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medium did Saint-Gaudens use to create the initial image of Farragut for the memorial?
(a) Iron.
(b) Plaster.
(c) Clay.
(d) Copper.

2. Who was Mark Twain?
(a) French actor.
(b) American writer.
(c) French writer.
(d) American actor.

3. Who was Stanford White?
(a) An architect.
(b) A sculptor.
(c) A writer.
(d) A doctor.

4. What ailment left Gussie Saint-Gaudens feeling isolated late in life?
(a) Deafness.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Muteness.
(d) Diabetes.

5. Who was Louis Saint-Gaudens?
(a) Gussie's father-in-law.
(b) Gussie's brother.
(c) Augustus' cousin.
(d) Augustus' brother.

6. How old was John Singer Sargent when he knew what he wanted to be?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Seven.

7. Where did Washburne get his legal degree?
(a) Harvard.
(b) New York University.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

8. Which two famous artists in Paris were impacted by the fire in Chicago in 1871?
(a) George Healy and Samuel Morse.
(b) George Catlin and Henri Pill.
(c) Mary Cassatt and Samuel Morse.
(d) George Healy and Mary Cassatt.

9. Who marched into Paris on March 1, 1871?
(a) Germans.
(b) Italians.
(c) English.
(d) Americans.

10. Who was Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A writer.
(c) An art master.
(d) A medical professor.

11. How old was Augustus Saint-Gaudens when his father apprenticed him to a cameo cutter?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Sixteen.

12. What was the quickest killer of those locked in Paris during the siege?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Disease.
(c) Battle wounds.
(d) Gun fire.

13. Where did Mary Putnam spend one night during the barrage of the Left Bank?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Sorbonne.
(c) The banks of the Siene.
(d) Under the Pantheon.

14. Did the political catastrophes of 1870-71 stop the influx of Americans to Paris?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only for a year.
(d) Only for a few months.

15. With whom did Mary Cassatt study art?
(a) Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis.
(b) John Singer Sargent.
(c) George Healy.
(d) Thomas Couture.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the request of Theodore Roosevelt, Saint-Gaudens created what?

2. What experience did Washburne have before being sent to Paris?

3. From what illness did Mary Cassatt's sister, Lydia, suffer?

4. For whose release did Washburne fight for in April of 1871?

5. What was considered the most important aspect of a cameo's success?

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