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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened on February 22, 1847?
(a) A new Revolution began.
(b) President Polk died.
(c) Crowds marched in protest.
(d) King Louis-Phillipe was assasinated.

2. What did Americans find unexpectedly good on their journey to Paris after leaving the ships?
(a) The vehicles.
(b) The roads.
(c) The accomadations.
(d) The food.

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

4. Who was Richard Rush?
(a) An artist.
(b) A medical student.
(c) An American congressman.
(d) An American minister to Paris.

5. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Henry Clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only one of New England's immortals, famous writers and intellectuals, who never went to Paris?

2. What did Healy use to get some of the faces in his painting, Webster's Repy to Hayne, correct?

3. Who was the first American to be admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts?

4. What is the Sorbonne?

5. Who was one of many artists who had come to Paris before the exodus of the 1830s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the primary mode of travel to Europe in the 1830s? What did many of these early travelers think of this mode of transportation?

2. Who was president of France in the 1850s? How was he received by American diplomats?

3. On September 14, 1851, what American author died? Who was among those who memorialized him at a tribute in New York?

4. What kind of careers would most of the American doctors who trained in Paris have?

5. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?

6. What was the genre of James Fenimore Cooper's first novel? Why was it not successful?

7. What changes did Louis Napoleon immediately set out to create? For what purpose?

8. What did Emma Willard note about the galleries in Paris that she found inspiring?

9. In Morse's disappointment with his art career, what project did he turn his attention to? How did this project change the way people communicated at the time?

10. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?

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