Global II Quizzes - Quiz 3a - French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

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1

Which revolution resulted from the division of society shown in this diagram?

	Haitian (1791)
	French (1789)
	Mexican (1910)
	Russian (1917)

2 What was the most important complaint this group had in France in the late 1700s?

	they received government assistance
	they had a voice in the government
	they had to pay all of the taxes
	they were not able to farm

3 What was the meeting called that included all of the estates?

	The Duma
	A Congress
	The Parliament
	The Estates General

4

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... We must ask ourselves three questions.

1. What is the Third Estate? Everything.

2. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing.

3. What does it want to be? Something. ...

- Abb‚ SieyŠs, 1789 (adapted)

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Based on this passage, what did the Third Estate want?

	independence from France
	more influence in the political system
	removal of the monarchy
	freedom of religion in France

5 What group suffered the most under France's social class system?

	merchants
	clergy
	peasants
	nobles

6 Where did the Third Estate meet to form a new National Assembly?

	at Fontaine Bleu
	on the King's Tennis Court at Versailles
	at a church
	on the streets

7

This drawing illustrates conditions that contributed primarily to the beginning of the

	Protestant Reformation
	French Revolution
	Napoleonic Wars
	European Renaissance

8 This legislature hadn't been called for 175 years, met in 1789 to raise taxes?

	The Second Estate
	The Clergy
	The Third Estate
	The Estates General

9 Which conclusion can be drawn from this drawing?

	One group paid heavy taxes that supported the other two groups.
	Hard work, prayer, and a good example allowed for a stable government in France.
	Peasants and professionals in this society were gaining political and economic power.
	French society emphasized the importance of natural law and social equality.

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“During the greater part of the day the guillotine :had been kept busy at its ghastly work . . . .

Every aristocrat was a traitor . . . . For two hundred years now the people had sweated, and

toiled, and starved to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those

who had helped to make these courts brilliant had to hide for their lives.”

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Which event is referred to in this passage?

	The Reign of Terror
	Sepoy Mutiny
	Mexican Revolution
	American Revolution

11 :Which person led the effort to use the Committee of Public Safety to protect the ideals of the revolution?

	Louis XVI
	Napoleon
	Robespierre
	John Locke

12 During the time period in the passage above, this person was executed as traitor to the state and officially ended the monarchy?

	Louis XVI
	Napoleon
	Louis XIV
	Robespierre

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"Congress of Vienna Restores Monarchy to France”

“Czar Nicholas I Limits Freedom of the Russian Press”

“Reform Movements Crushed in Hungary, Italy, and the German States”

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These headlines could be described as

	efforts to improve the conditions of factory workers
	reactions to the French Revolution
	movements to unify all of western Europe
	attempts to promote trade between European nations

14 Napoleon Bonaparte had a failed invasion of Russia because of?

	the Russian Climate
	not enough supplies
	disease in his army
	not enough horses

15 What other person in history met a similar fate to Napoleon?

	Joseph Stalin
	Adolf Hitler
	Benito Mussolini
	Niccolo Machiavelli