Module 19 French Revolution Practice Test

What was the Old Regime?

• A) A revolutionary group

• B) A military strategy

• C) A system of feudalism

• D) A type of government building

Who was Louis XVI?

• A) A radical political leader

• B) A weak king who came to the French throne in 1774

• C) The leader of the Jacobin Club

• D) A military leader who seized power in France

What was the Estates-General?

• A) A wave of panic

• B) A military defeat

• C) An agreement

• D) An assembly of representatives from all three estates

What was the purpose of the Tennis Court Oath?

• A) To establish a new military strategy

• B) To restore the old system

• C) To draw up a new constitution

• D) To vote by the people

Who were the sans-culotte?

• A) A group of Parisian wage-earners

• B) Members of the Legislative Assembly

• C) Representatives of the Third Estate

• D) A military group

What was the Reign of Terror?

• A) The period of Napoleon Bonaparte's rule

• B) The period of Robespierre's rule

• C) The time when the National Assembly was established

• D) The British defeat of Napoleon's forces at sea

What is a coup d'état?

• A) An agreement

• B) A sudden takeover of a government

• C) A vote by the people

• D) A public school

What is the Napoleonic Code?

• A) A military strategy

• B) A public school system

• C) A complete set of laws set up by Napoleon that eliminated many injustices

• D) An assembly that replaced the National Assembly

What was the Battle of Trafalgar?

• A) A revolutionary leader's attempt to wipe out the monarchy

• B) A period of panic in France

• C) A British defeat of Napoleon's forces at sea

• D) A promise made by Third Estate representatives

What was the Continental System?

• A) A series of alliances to help prevent revolution

• B) Napoleon's policy of preventing trade and communication between Great Britain and other European nations

• C) The battle in Belgium that was Napoleon's final defeat

• D) The league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia