World History Chapter 20 Test

Question 1

True or False? The radical faction controlled the Legislative Assembly.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True or False? The Third Estate included the bourgeoisie, the artisans and workers, and the peasants.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or False? The Reign of Terror decreased foreign opposition to the French Revolution.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or False? ONly male citizens were executed during the Reign of Terror.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or False? About 17,000 people were executed over a ten-month period during France’s Reign of Terror.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False? The Napoleonic Wars were fought against counterrevolutionaries in western France.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False? Napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant military leader who could be described as ruthlessly ambitious.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False? Napoleon built a strong, centralized government in France.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False? As First Consul in the Consulate, Napoleon was a dictator.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False? During a period known as the Hundred Days, Napoleon’s troops met disaster during the winter in Russia.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True or False? The Congress of Vienna restored some of the monarchies that Napoleon had eliminated.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or False? The army Napoleon led into Russia was troubled from the start by disloyalty, problems with supplies, and misery caused by the summer heat.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What event caused the Great Fear?

Answer 13

The fall of the Bastille

Question 14

Why did the Legislative Assembly declare war against Austria?

Answer 14

Austrians had issued a declaration warning against harming the French monarchs.

Question 15

Why did King Louis XIV call a meeting of the Estates General to be held in the spring of 1789?

Answer 15

To get approval for new taxes on the Third Estate.

Question 16

Which of the following revolutionary leaders came to oppose the violent excesses of the Revolution?

Answer 16

George-Jaques Danton

Question 17

Why was the Revolutionary Tribunal created?

Answer 17

To eliminate people who threatened the Revolution from within.

Question 18

Europeans outside of France reacted to the execution of Louis XVI with?

Answer 18

Horror

Question 19

Which of the following legislative bodies ended the monarchy and proclaimed France a republic?

Answer 19

The National Convention

Question 20

Which of the following is the correct sequence of legislative bodies that governed France during the Revolution from first to last?

Answer 20

National Assembly, Legislative Assembly, National Convention, Directory

Question 21

Many peasants came to oppose the Revolution because?

Answer 21

They opposed the Revolution’s anticlerical moves and the draft.

Question 22

The French people welcomed Napoleon because?

Answer 22

He promised order after the chaos of the Revolution.

Question 23

Why did Napoleon see the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

Answer 23

His failure to take back Saint Domingue led him to abandon his dream of an empire in the Americas.

Question 24

Portugal refused to comply with the Continental System because?

Answer 24

It depended on its trade with Great Britain.

Question 25

Throughout the Napoleonic Wars, France's greatest enemy was?

Answer 25

Great Britain

Question 26

Which of the following leaders most helped to defuse the liberal ideals of the French Revolution?

Answer 26

Prince Klemens von Metternich

Question 27

Which of the following did Great Britain receive as a result of their fight against France?

Answer 27

Overseas colonies

Question 28

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens considered which of the following rights one of the most precious?

Answer 28

Freedom of Speech

Question 29

Which of the following provisions of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens would have particularly angered the Second Estate?

Answer 29

12

Question 30

Which of the following was one cause of the French Revolution?

Answer 30

New taxes on the Second Estate

Question 31

Which of the following was one of the first acts of the National Convention?

Answer 31

The declaration that France was a republic

Question 32

Which of the political factors was the most radical?

Answer 32

The Montagnards

Question 33

Which states were opposed to Napoleon in 1812?

Answer 33

Portugal, united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Sicily, Montengro, Russian Empire and Sweden.

Question 34

The rights outlined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen did not extend to?

Answer 34

Women

Question 35

Destroyed most of the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile?

Answer 35

Horatio Nelson

Question 36

The vote that made France an empire in 1804?

Answer 36

Plebiscite

Question 37

Roman Catholic clergy?

Answer 37

First Estate

Question 38

A weak governing board that ended when Napoleon seized power?

Answer 38

Directory

Question 39

Recognized the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in France?

Answer 39

Concordat

Question 40

Nobility?

Answer 40

Second Estate

Question 41

Site of a crushing defeat for Napoleon?

Answer 41

Waterloo

Question 42

Sense of patriotism and unity as people?

Answer 42

Nationalism

Question 43

Support came from the lower middle class and the poor.

Answer 43

Jacobin Club

Question 44

Guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, and religion?

Answer 44

the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Question 45

A brief period when Napoleon regained control of France?

Answer 45

Hundred Days

Question 46

A symbolic event of the Revolution?

Answer 46

The storming of Bastille

Question 47

A force transfer of power?

Answer 47

coup d'etat

Question 48

Used for executions?

Answer 48

guillotine

Question 49

His views dominated the Congress of Vienna.

Answer 49

Prince Klemens von Metternich

Question 50

The top of France's Old Order?

Answer 50

King Louis XIV