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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. What took place on September 2, 1851?
2. What invention did Samuel Morse create that changed communications throughout the world?
3. How far was the trip from La Havre to Paris?
4. Why did Samuel Morse wish to go to Paris in the 1830s?
5. What American was good friends with Louis Napoleon Bonaparte?
Short Essay Questions
1. What shift in the types of Americans coming to Paris took place in the late 1840s?
2. For what reason did Parisians place bodies recovered from the Seine on displayed?
3. What were some of Mason Warren's complaints about the behavior of the doctors under whom he trained in Paris?
4. What changes did Louis Napoleon immediately set out to create? For what purpose?
5. How did many of the Americans who arrived in Paris in the 1830s feel about the stringent laws regarding passports?
6. What famous anti-slavery author toured Paris in 1853? What were her impressions of the city?
7. For what reason were many Americans disappointed with their first impressions of Paris?
8. Who taught Samuel Morse to paint? What career would his parents have preferred he pursued?
9. What invention did the artist Delacroix say marked the death of art? Who invented it?
10. Who was George Healy? Who was he commissioned to paint in the 1840s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the Ecole de Medicine? Why did many Americans chose to attend medical school in Paris? How did French medical training contrast with American medical training? How did medical protocols compare with American? Who were the teachers at the Ecole de Medicine? How did their techniques differ from what Americans had previously been taught?
Essay Topic 2
Who was King Louis-Phillipe? What was the political climate like in Paris during the 1830s? How did this political climate impact Americans in Paris? What was the lifestyle of most Parisians like? How did this lifestyle differ from life in America? What things did the Americans in Paris adopt about the lifestyles of the French? What things did Americans disapprove of in the lifestyles of the French?
Essay Topic 3
What is cholera? Why was it believed that it would never appear in a civilized city? How did people react when a cholera outbreak began in Paris in 1832? How did cholera affect its victims? What was the prognosis of a patient with cholera in 1832? What did Americans know of cholera? Why was it believed in the 1830s that cholera was a disease of the poor? Why did people believe that the government was actively poisoning the poor during the initial outbreak? How did Americans respond to this crisis?
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