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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes choose to travel to Paris in the 1830s?

2. What was shocking to some Americans about the statues in the Garden of the Tuileries?

3. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?

4. Why did James Fenimore Cooper not leave Paris at the beginning of the cholera outbreak?

5. What did many Americans quickly discover about the economy in France as compared to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artist did James Fenimore Cooper befriend while living in Paris? Where was this artist completing most of his work during this friendship?

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

3. What form of travel did most Americans discover was necessary in order to see many of the sights of Paris?

4. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?

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

6. What one commission did Samuel Morse hope to get that he did not receive? Why did he not get it?

7. What were some of the biggest complaints against King Louis-Phillipe in 1847 that eventually led to the king going into exile?

8. 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?

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

10. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following people in an essay using quotes from the book to support your conclusions:

1) Charles Sumner

2) John Sanderson

3) Nathaniel Willis

4) Emma Willard.

Essay Topic 2

What illness did August Saint-Gaudens suffer later in his life? Why did this illness cause Saint-Gaudens to fall into a dark depression? On what works was Saint-Gaudens working at the time? Why did he insist they be bronzed in Paris? Where did Saint-Gaudens move in July of 1900? for what reason? With whom would Saint-Gaudens live out the rest of his life? What was the Paris Saint-Gaudens left behind like? What influence did Paris continue to have on Americans? What influence does Paris have on Americans now?

Essay Topic 3

What is the Farragut? Who created it? What struggles did this person undergo in creating this piece of art? How did it impact his personal life? How did it impact his professional life? Where is the Farragut now? What other works did this artist create? Where are some of these works displayed? What impact did this artist have on the art world during his lifetime? What impact did Paris have on this artist and his career?

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