French Revolution and Napoleon Review 2024

Question 1

What method of execution was used the most during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

guillotine

Question 2

What was Robespierre's weapon?

Accepted Answer

his words

Question 3

________ is sense of identity of a people with common language, religion, & national symbols.

Accepted Answer

nationalism

Question 4

Which of the following was NOT a change in the new deChristrianized calendar?

Accepted Answer

There were 12 months in a year

Question 5

Where was Napoleon born?

Accepted Answer

Corsica

Question 6

What did the peasants want to retrieve from the Bastille?

Accepted Answer

gunpowder

Question 7

The first Estate was made up of ________

Accepted Answer

clergy

Question 8

The three major parts of Napoleon’s Grand Empire were

Accepted Answer

the French Empire, the dependent states, and allied states.

Question 9

The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

Accepted Answer

a vow to meet until they produced a French constitution.

Question 10

When Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, who wanted a constitutional government?

Accepted Answer

Third Estate

Question 11

Napoleon’s Civil Code treated women

Accepted Answer

as less than equal to men

Question 12

Napoleon’s agreement with the Catholic Church did all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

return church lands to the pope and clergy.

Question 13

democratic nation made of good citizens that the Committee of Public Safety tried to establish

Accepted Answer

Republic of Virtue

Question 14

group of French politicians who favored keeping the king alive

Accepted Answer

Girondins

Question 15

The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers to

Accepted Answer

defend France from threats.

Question 16

Which of the following was guillotined on July 28, 1794 (his death ended the Terror)?

Accepted Answer

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 17

Napoleon’s coup d’état overthrew the _____________ to establish his consulate

Accepted Answer

Directory

Question 18

The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at

Accepted Answer

Waterloo in Belgium.

Question 19

How much bread did the people of France eat a day?

Accepted Answer

two pounds

Question 20

The term sans-culottes, meaning “without breeches,” meant the members of this group were

Accepted Answer

ordinary patriots without fine clothes.

Question 21

The French Army under Napoleon became the largest army ever seen up to that time.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by

Accepted Answer

retreating and burning their own villages and countryside.

Question 23

attack on this began the French Revolution

Accepted Answer

Bastille

Question 24

military leader who handed Napoleon his final defeat at Waterloo

Accepted Answer

Duke of Wellington

Question 25

Napoleon’s military force was called the

Accepted Answer

Grand Army.

Question 26

What did the Robespierre want the First and Second Estates to do?

Accepted Answer

pay taxes

Question 27

Napoleon appointed his relatives to rule allied states.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

What were the two major reasons that Napoleon’s Grand Empire collapsed?

Accepted Answer

the survival of Great Britain and the force of nationalism

Question 29

The radical newspaper "Friend of the People" was written by __________.

Accepted Answer

Jean-Paul Marat

Question 30

Who was the radical Jacobin that pursued the Reign of Terror?

Accepted Answer

Maximilien Robespierre

Question 31

During the attempted deChristianization of France, what name was removed from street names?

Accepted Answer

Saint

Question 32

Napoleon’s Continental System was designed to

Accepted Answer

stop British trade with Europe

Question 33

The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was

Accepted Answer

the Civil Code

Question 34

What were some of the most important causes of the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment ideas, rigid social structure, money crisis

Question 35

Where did King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette live in luxury?

Accepted Answer

Versailles

Question 36

island off the coast of Italy, where Napoleon was first exiled

Accepted Answer

Island of Elba

Question 37

Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was

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based on ability only, not rank or birth.

Question 38

representatives who convinced the Convention to condemn Louis XVI to death

Accepted Answer

The Jacobins

Question 39

The Third Estate made up __________________ percent of the French population.

Accepted Answer

97

Question 40

In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

Before the revolution, France’s economy had been growing and poverty was decreasing.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

Napoleon's greatest military mistake was invading _________________.

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 43

The ______ took control of the French government in 1793 and established a Reign of Terror.

Accepted Answer

Committee of Public Safety

Question 44

Napoleon's first wife; she was a society star

Accepted Answer

Josephine de Beauharnais

Question 45

When Louis XVI began to lose power, Austria and _______ threatened to use force to restore him.

Accepted Answer

Prussia

Question 46

Under Napoleon’s new government set up in 1799, Napoleon shared powers with the consulate.

Accepted Answer

False

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