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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 did Louis Napoleon Bonaparte say was his power?
(a) His charm.
(b) His family history.
(c) His looks.
(d) His name.

2. What is the Louvre?
(a) An architecture school.
(b) An art school.
(c) A medical school.
(d) An art musuem.

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

4. What is a brig as described in Chapter 1?
(a) A single-masted round rigged ship that carried passengers.
(b) A cruise ship.
(c) A millitary jail.
(d) A two-masted square-rigged ship that carried cargo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the American minister to Paris in 1787?

2. What was the largest hospital in Paris in the 1830s?

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

4. To where was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte exiled in the 1830s after a failed to overthrow King Louis-Phillipe?

5. What household pet was very popular among the French in 1830?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis? Why was he important to Americans who went to Paris in the 1830s?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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