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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 does abdicate mean?
(a) To relinquish power formally.
(b) To retire.
(c) To be fired.
(d) To agree to political demands.

2. What was Emma Willard's profession?
(a) Doctor in training.
(b) Artist.
(c) Schoolmistress and textbook writer.
(d) Lawyer.

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

4. Who was it who came to believe there was something distinctive in an American face that he could pick out in a crowd?
(a) Nathaniel Willis.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) James Fenimore Cooper.
(d) George Healy.

5. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?
(a) Hamsters.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered the grandest and most exuberant expression of the Second Empire opulence?

2. Who is Natty Bumppo?

3. How did Antoine Gros die?

4. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?

5. What took place in April 1834 that allowed many medical students to see gunshot wounds and wounds caused by bayonets first hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the professions of those who traveled to Paris in the 1830s? What reason did they have to travel to Paris?

2. What aspect of living in Paris did many ladies from America appreciate the most?

3. For what reason did Americans prior to the 1830s embark to Paris? Who were these Americans?

4. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?

5. What did the Americans find unusual about the way in which Parisians took their meals?

6. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?

7. How did many of the Americans who arrived in Paris in the 1830s feel about the stringent laws regarding passports?

8. What invention did the artist Delacroix say marked the death of art? Who invented it?

9. What were some of the differences between medical training in the United States and medical training in Paris?

10. What was one of the most memorable landmarks the Americans would often stop to see on their way into Paris in the 1830s? Why were many Americans so impressed by this sight?

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