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- 1. Multiple Choice
All of the following were causes of the French Revolution EXCEPT
Enlightenment ideas
Inflation and unemployment
Bad leadership from Louis XVI
The rise of Napoleon
- 2. Multiple Choice
How did France's social divisions in the late 1700s contribute to the French Revolution?
All of the estates in French society believed the government should be changed.
Members of the First Estate believed those in the Second Estate should have greater rights and privileges.
Members of the Second Estate demanded significant social and financial reform.
Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The “Great Fear” could best be described as
the peasants believed that the Church was going to ban them from religious functions
the peasants believed that the nobles were plotting against them
the clergy believed that the peasants were going to take their land
the nobles believed that the peasants were going to make them leave the country
- 4. Multiple Choice
Louis XVI wanted war because
He believed that French soldiers were better than anyone else.
He knew that he could extend France’s powers.
He was angry with Austria.
He hoped that foreign armies would defeat the French army and restore his power.
- 5. Multiple Choice
When the National Convention brought Louis XVI to trial
he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prision.
he was found not guilty and restored to the throne.
he was found guilty and beheaded.
he was found guilty but escaped to Austria.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Napoleon and his Grand Army invaded Russia because
Russia ignored the blockade against Great Britain.
Czar Alexander threatened to kill him.
Louis XVIII was plotting with Russia to overthrow Napoleon's government.
Napoleon found out Russia was going to invade France and wanted to strike first.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The National Guard was the name given to the people's army formed by
Napoleon Bonaparte
the Marquis de Lafayette
Louis XVI
Louis XVIII
- 8. Multiple Choice
Why was the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, an important event in the French Revolution?
It challenged the king's authority.
It allowed revolutionaries to seize guns and ammunition.
It allowed political prisoners to escape.
It showed the king's determination to put down the rebellion.
- 9. Multiple Choice
How did France change under the National Assembly?
The French countryside dissolved into violence.
Order and peace were restored in Paris.
France became a republic.
France became a consitutional monarchy.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which group made up the "Second Estate" under France's ancien régime?
the clergy
the nobility
the bourgeoisie
the peasants
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which group in France would have been most likely to support the Reign of Terror?
emigres
sans-culottes
the First Estate
the National Assembly
- 12. Multiple Choice
How did the Directory's actions ultimately lead to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Directory wanted to restore the monarchy.
The Directory was well regarded by the population.
The Directory was weak and corrupt.
The Directory had supported the Reign of Terror.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is one way that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence?
It was based on the principle that all people had equal political rights.
It established a two-house legislature.
It abolished monarchy and set up a republic.
It affirmed that the function of government was to protect individual rights.
- 14. Multiple Choice
"General Famine and General Winter, rather than Russian bullets, have conquered the Grand Army."—French general Michel Ney
What was an immediate result of the event described in the above quotation?
Napoleon surrendered and was sent into exile.
The French monarchy was restored to power.
Napoleon's enemies renewed their fight against France.
Napoleon established the Continental System.
- 15. Multiple Choice
The ________________, or 1st Estate, owned 15% of all the land in France prior to the Revolution.
clergy
nobles
bourgeoisie
proletariat
- 16. Multiple Choice
The Committee of Public Safety worked to establish a ______ where people would act according to principles of good citizenship.
Directory
Republic of Virtue
New World Order
National Assembly
- 17. Multiple Choice
Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by combined British and Prussian Forces at the Battle of
Waterloo
Tours
the Bulge
Verdun
- 18. Multiple Choice
Napoleon became the leader of France after he seized power in a(n) ___________ in 1799.
election
hereditary coronation
coup d'etat
ordeal
- 19. Multiple Choice
Universal manhood suffrage meant
men could vote, regardless of owning property
men could vote, but only if they owned property
women could vote if they owned property
women could vote if their husbands owned property
- 20. Multiple Choice
This group paid the most taxes during the Old Regime.
Clergy
Nobles
Third Estate
First Estate
- 21. Multiple Choice
France increased its debt through
war with England.
failed exploration and expansion attempts.
giving financial aid to the United States.
putting down rebellions in France's colonies.
- 22. Multiple Choice
This prison was considered a symbol of royal oppression.
Chateau d'If
the Bastille
Folsom Prison
the Baumettes
- 23. Multiple Choice
The term sans-culottes, meaning “without breeches,” implied that the members of this political group were
women, because they wore skirts.
wealthy, because they did not wear breeches.
pacifists who did not use guns.
ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
- 24. Multiple Choice
The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was
a promise to redistribute all the wealth in France.
a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution.
an oath of loyalty to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism.
a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed.
- 25. Multiple Choice
The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by
retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside.
waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter.
splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides.
making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia.
- 26. Multiple Choice
In its attempts to create a new order that reflected its belief in reason, the National Convention
declared new national holidays celebrating great French religious leaders.
ordered the building of several new libraries and universities, even though the treasury was empty.
pursued a policy of de-Christianization, going so far as to adopt a new calendar.
drafted yet another constitution to reflect the ideas of the Enlightenment.
- 27. Multiple Choice
Louis XVI was forced to accept the National Assembly’s decrees because
the army turned against him and threatened to execute him.
thousands of armed Parisian women descended on the palace and captured him and his family.
it was the only way he would be allowed to remain mayor of Paris.
his attempt to escape to Poland had failed.
- 28. Multiple Choice
The three major parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire were
the First Estate, the Second Estate, and the Third Estate.
France, Morocco, and Algeria.
the French Empire, the dependent states, and the allied states.
Austria, Prussia, and Serbia.
- 29. Multiple Choice
What were the two major reasons that Napoleon’s Grand Empire collapsed?
Napoleon’s greed and laziness within his bureaucracy
the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism
the resentment of the clergy and the plotting of the accountants
France’s weak economy and the drain of Napoleon’s many wars
- 30. Multiple Choice
Napoleon was first exiled to this island off the coast of Italy, but he managed to escape.
Sicily
Elba
Corsica
Crete
- 31. Multiple Choice
In 1791, a new Constitution was established in France that allowed "active" citizens to vote. What were "active" citizens?
men over 25 who paid a certain amount of taxes.
men and women of nobility.
all adult men.
clergy and nobility.
- 32. Multiple Choice
To ensure loyalty, who did Napoleon install on the thrones of the lands he conquered?
his relatives
the Directory
members of the 3rd Estate
the Duke of Wellington
- 33. Multiple Choice
Who was the radical Jacobin that pursued the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Maximilien Robespierre
Louis XVI
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- 34. Multiple Choice
The Second Estate did all of the following EXCEPT
own from 25 to 30 percent of the land.
hold high positions in government and the military.
not pay taxes.
harvest crops for the clergy.
- 35. Multiple Choice
The two dissenting groups within the National Convention were the
Jacobins and the Girondins.
Girondins and the Mountain
Mountain and the Paris Commune
Cordays and Jacobins
- 36. Multiple Choice
The Committee of Public Safety originally implemented the Reign of Terror to
defend France against foreign armies.
oppose the sans-culottes.
guard Marie Antoinette.
eliminate the king.
- 37. Multiple Choice
Napoleon’s Continental System was designed to
defeat Prussia.
stop British trade with Europe.
unify Italy.
conquer Protestantism.
- 38. Multiple Choice
Napoleon’s agreement with the Catholic Church did all of the following EXCEPT
recognize Catholicism as the majority religion of France.
return church lands to the pope and clergy.
make those who had purchased church land his supporters.
restore some stability to France.
- 39. Multiple Choice
Who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?
a combined British and Prussian army led by the Duke of Wellington.
the British army led by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson.
the sans-culottes led by the Marquis de Lafayette.
the Girondins led by Robespierre.
- 40. Multiple Choice
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed all of the following EXCEPT
an end to tax ememptions.
freedom of speech.
equal rights for women.
freedom of the press.
- 41. Multiple Choice
When Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General in 1789, which estate wanted to set up a constitutional government?
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
4th Estate
- 42. Multiple Choice
The Directory was eventually toppled by which of the following?
Robespierre
the Jacobins
Louis XVI
Napoleon Bonaparte
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