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AP European History Unit 5: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

Question 1

Multiple choice



  • Maximilien de Bethune

  • Étienne de Silhouette

  • Jacques Necker

  • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

  • Charles Alexandre de Calonne

  • Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Question 2

Multiple choice



  • The abolition of the traditional privileges of the peasantry

  • The impending bankruptcy of the French treasury

  • The arrival of a comet seen as an omen of doom

  • The spread of a deadly plague from foreign lands

  • A foreign invasion supporting Louis XVI

  • An aristocratic conspiracy to starve or burn out the population

Question 3

Multiple choice



  • The enactment of the levée en masse

  • The passing of the Law of Suspects

  • The de-Christianization of France

  • The establishment of the Concordat of 1801

  • The use of the guillotine for executions

  • The creation of the Committee of Public Safety

Question 4

Multiple choice



  • Demand for the right to vote for women

  • Rejection of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

  • Opposition to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • Support for the return of the monarchy

  • Call for the end of the war with Austria

  • Protest against the scarcity and high price of bread

Question 5

Multiple choice



  • The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • The Constitution of 1791

  • The Napoleonic Code

  • The Treaty of Paris

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

  • The Edict of Versailles

Question 6

Multiple choice



  • The Montagnards

  • The Jacobins

  • The Feuillants

  • The Cordeliers

  • The Girondins

  • The Sans-Culottes

Question 7

Multiple choice



  • A diplomatic report on the revolution's impact on Europe

  • A conservative critique of the revolution and a defense of traditional institutions

  • A monarchist call to restore the Bourbon dynasty

  • A socialist interpretation of the revolution's outcomes

  • A radical endorsement of the revolution's principles

  • A neutral analysis of the causes of the revolution

Question 8

Multiple choice



  • The right to a trial by jury for all citizens

  • Equality of all male citizens before the law

  • The establishment of a constitutional monarchy

  • Universal suffrage for all adult citizens

  • The separation of church and state

  • The abolition of slavery in all French territories

Question 9

Multiple choice



  • Unify the legal systems of the European continent

  • Promote cultural exchange and education throughout Europe

  • Create a pan-European military alliance against Britain

  • Standardize the metric system across Europe

  • Weaken Britain economically through a trade embargo

  • Establish a common European currency

Question 10

Multiple choice



  • The validation of the Holy Roman Empire's dissolution

  • The establishment of a legitimate trade framework for European nations

  • The legal validation of land claims by European powers in the New World

  • The restoration of hereditary monarchies that the revolution and Napoleon had displaced

  • The confirmation of Napoleon's territorial changes in Europe

  • The recognition of the rights of citizens as outlined in revolutionary documents

Question 11

Multiple choice



  • The rise of Prussia as a significant military power

  • The permanent dissolution of the Spanish Empire

  • The establishment of the German Confederation

  • The redrawing of the map of Europe

  • The stimulation of the Industrial Revolution in Britain

  • The spread of nationalist ideas across Europe

Question 12

Multiple choice



  • The Hundred Days

  • The invasion of Russia in 1812

  • The Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal

  • The Battle of Trafalgar

  • The Egyptian Campaign

  • The Battle of Austerlitz

Question 13

Multiple choice



  • Formalizing the abolition of serfdom in the German territories

  • Regulating trade between the German states

  • Creating a unified German currency

  • Suppressing liberal and nationalist movements within the German Confederation

  • Establishing a new constitution for the German Confederation

  • Coordinating military defense among the German states

Question 14

Multiple choice



  • The initial uprising that led to the fall of the Bastille

  • The conservative turn during the Congress of Vienna

  • The political backlash against the radicalism of the Reign of Terror

  • The resistance to Napoleon's return from Elba

  • The revolt against the Directory

  • The response to the execution of Louis XVI

Question 15

Multiple choice



  • The expansion of Napoleonic rule throughout Europe

  • A return to monarchical authority and the reestablishment of the Catholic Church's influence

  • The continuation of revolutionary violence to achieve political ends

  • The establishment of a democratic republic

  • The spread of Enlightenment ideals and secular governance

  • The maintenance of the status quo ante bellum

Question 16

Multiple choice



  • The excommunication of Napoleon by the Pope

  • The creation of the Church of France independent of the Vatican

  • The establishment of Protestantism as the state religion

  • The confiscation of all church lands by the French state

  • The recognition of Catholicism as the religion of the majority of the French people

  • The complete separation of church and state in France

Question 17

Multiple choice



  • The clergy who refused to swear an oath to the Civil Constitution

  • The members of the secret police under Robespierre

  • The nobility who opposed the revolution and fled the country

  • The moderate revolutionaries who supported a constitutional monarchy

  • The radical working-class men and women who sought a more democratic republic

  • The foreign mercenaries hired by the revolutionaries

Question 18

Multiple choice



  • The independence of the German states from the Holy Roman Empire

  • The establishment of a French republic

  • The annexation of Belgium by France

  • The cession of Corsica to the British

  • The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with Louis XVIII as king

  • The division of France into occupied zones by the Allies

Question 19

Multiple choice



  • A diplomatic effort to gain foreign support against the monarchy

  • A policy of conscription for all unmarried able-bodied men to serve in the army

  • A mass protest against the Civil Constitution of the Clergy

  • A general strike by the Sans-Culottes to demand higher wages

  • A wave of emigration by the nobility and clergy

  • A tax imposed on the Third Estate to finance the revolution

Question 20

Multiple choice



  • Louis XVI - King of France at the start of the revolution

  • Jean-Paul Marat - Radical journalist and politician

  • Maximilien de Robespierre - Prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety

  • Georges Danton - Leader of the Girondin faction

  • Marie Antoinette - Queen consort of Louis XVI

  • Jacques Necker - Finance Minister who advocated for economic reforms

Question 21

Multiple choice



  • The American Revolution

  • The Haitian Revolution

  • The Seven Years' War

  • The Latin American wars of independence

  • The War of the Spanish Succession

  • The French Revolution

Question 22

Multiple choice



  • Resulted in the abolition of the French monarchy

  • Led to the successful establishment of the second independent nation in the Americas

  • Led to the establishment of the United Nations

  • Caused a shift in the balance of power between European states

  • Prompted the widespread abolition of slavery in European colonies

  • Initiated a series of revolutions throughout the Spanish Empire

Question 23

Multiple choice



  • Proclaimed himself Emperor of Haiti

  • Became the first President of the United States

  • Negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with the United States

  • Was elected as the Prime Minister of France

  • Founded the modern French banking system

  • Led the French army in the Napoleonic Wars

Question 24

Multiple choice



  • Denis Diderot

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • Baron de Montesquieu

  • Immanuel Kant

  • Edmund Burke

  • Voltaire

Question 25

Multiple choice



  • The end of the Holy Roman Empire

  • The independence of the Spanish colonies in America

  • The successful invasion of Britain by French forces

  • British naval supremacy and the failure of the Continental System

  • The collapse of the French economy

  • The abdication of Napoleon and his exile to Elba

Question 26

Multiple choice



  • Spain

  • Prussia

  • The Ottoman Empire

  • Austria

  • The Dutch Republic

  • Great Britain

Question 27

Multiple choice



  • A coup d'état led by Napoleon Bonaparte

  • A popular uprising in Paris

  • The assassination of its five directors

  • A declaration of war by Britain and Austria

  • The return of the monarchy

  • The economic collapse of France

Question 28

Multiple choice



  • Declared the establishment of a theocracy in France

  • Established Catholicism as the only legal religion in France

  • Resulted in the immediate end of the French Revolution

  • Was an agreement between the Pope and Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Subordinated the Catholic Church in France to the French government

  • Led to the separation of church and state in France

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