The French Revolution and Napoleon

Choose the correct answer for each question.


1	Which of the following was responsible for the convening of the Estates General in 1789?
		the storming of the Bastille
		the French government's near bankruptcy
		peasant rejection of increased manorial dues
		royal abolition of guild restrictions
		religious warfare between Huguenots and Catholics

2	Which of the following statements best describes the Old Regime in France?
		there was complete social equality between classes
		the burden of taxation fell almost entirely on the Third Estate
		citizens enjoyed complete freedom of speech
		the estates general controlled the government
		citizens had complete loyality towards the government

3	The cahiers de doleances of 1789 generally demanded
		the death of the king
		war with Austria
		an end to the use of the guillotine
		government reforms
		the overthrow of the Church

4	The seizure of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 was important because it
		gave the sans-cullotte a strong fort
		released thousands of prisoners who joined the revolutionaries
		placed the royal family under the control of the Paris mobs
		represented a successful attack on the tyranny of the Old Regime
		brought Britain into the war against the French Republic

5	During the French Revolution the Jacobins favored the establishment of a/an
		limited monarchy under the king
		republic
		an absolute monarchy ruled by divine right
		confederation
		government under the Catholic Church

6	The assignats of the French Revolutionary era were
		members of a moderate political party
		paper currency backed by church lands
		nobles who fled from france
		plots of land sold to peasants
		peasant revolts against the republic

7	Which of the following groups in France were most opposed to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
		diests
		bourgeoisie
		Jacobins
		liberal aristocrats
		peasants

8	Which of the following contributed the most to Napoleon's downfall?
		his establishment of the French Empire
		his granting of amnesty to one hundred thousand emigre nobles
		his support of a national spy and surveillance system
		his agreement to the Treaty of Tilsit
		his 1812 invasion of Russia

9	The group that met in 1787 to discuss tax reform in France was the
		Assembly of Notables
		Estates General
		National Assembly
		National Convention
		Directory

10	The crucial battle that frustrated Napoleon's plans to invade England was
		Waterloo
		Trafalgar
		Austerlitz
		Borodino
		Jena

11	Abbe Sieyes's answer to the question "What is the Third Estate?" was
		a bunch of radicals
		the most useful component of French society
		those who adhered to liberalism
		the business and professional elite
		the community of artists and musicians

12	The men elected to represent the third estate in the Estates General were primarily
		provincial nobles
		businessmen
		soldiers
		lawyers and government officials
		sans-culottes

13	The term "Great Fear" refers to
		Use of the guillotine during the Reign of Terror
		murder of thousands of enemies of the Revolution in the prisons
		panic in the countryside that fanned the flames of rebellion
		the horiffic retreat of the French Army from Russia in 1812
		the fear of an English invasion of France

14	During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person in the Committee of Public Safety was
		Abbe Sieyes
		Georges Danton
		Napoleon Bonaparte
		Maximillian Robespiere
		Marquis de Lafayette

15	Napoleon was finally defeated at the Battle of
		Waterloo
		Austerlitz
		White Mountain
		Jena
		Trafalgar