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Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon?


A) He was both a child of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
B) He had a sense of moral responsibility to the people of France.
C) He advocated an invasion of Britain in the 1790s.
D) He was born the son of a Parisian merchant.
E) He was a successful military general but had no talent for civil administration and reform.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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The National Assembly responded to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen by Olympe de Gouges by


A) inviting her to become their first female member.
B) arresting and imprisoned her.
C) ignoring her demands.
D) immediately passing a series of laws guaranteeing female legal and political equality.
E) exiling her from France.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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In the French Constitution of 1791, who had the right to vote?


A) all men.
B) all men and wealthy women.
C) male citizens who met a tax qualification.
D) male citizens with noble titles.
E) all adults.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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By summoning the Estates-General in 1789, the government


A) showed its autocratic strength, since it possessed absolute control over the representatives.
B) was following its obligation for regular meetings of the traditional representative assembly.
C) was merely looking for a way to solve the immediate financial crisis.
D) indicated its intentions to launch a major reform of the French political system.
E) all of the above.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Talk about : -the guillotine

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How was France changed by the revolutionary events of 1789-1792? Who benefited the most from these changes?

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Talk about : -Declaration of Pillnitz

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In the fifty years before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the French economy was


A) growing due to an expansion of foreign trade and industrial production.
B) stagnant due to foreign competition in industry and trade.
C) declining rapidly due to overuse of arable land.
D) ruined by the collapse of the textile industry.
E) entirely based upon agricultural production.

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed


A) free or affordable food for the poor.
B) equality under the law for all French men.
C) equality under the law for all French men and women.
D) a constitutional monarchy for France.
E) the right to vote for all French men.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Talk about : -old order

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Talk about : -sans-culottes

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Which of the following statements about Germaine de Staël is not true?


A) She was educated in Enlightenment ideals and set up a salon in Paris.
B) She wrote novels and political works that denounced Napoleon's rule as tyrannical.
C) Her books were banned in France.
D) Napoleon exiled her to the German states.
E) She died in London, having stopped writing as the result of her disenchantment with the despotism of Napoleon.

F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

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All of the following were accomplished by the National/Constituent Assembly except the


A) Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
B) Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
C) legal defense of seigneurial rights throughout the country.
D) reform of French voting procedures.
E) abolishment of divine right monarchy.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Does Napoleon's military record, as described in the text, support or challenge assertions that he was the greatest general of all time? What were his biggest military successes, and what were his biggest military failures? Do the successes outweigh the failures in assessing his reputation? Why or why not?

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The colonists won their war for independence due to


A) generous military and financial aid from various European states, especially France.
B) the collapse of the English colonial system.
C) apathy of the English military.
D) flaws in the English mercantile system.
E) all of the above

F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

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The head of the Committee of Public Safety who presided over the terror in France in 1793 and 1794 was


A) Babeuf.
B) Sieyès
C) Robespierre.
D) Marat.
E) Saint-Just.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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With regard to matters of religion, the National Convention adopted measures


A) to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church.
B) to allow for religious freedom for members of all Christian denominations.
C) to de-Christianize the new French Republic.
D) to secure the pope's leadership of the French Revolution.
E) to expel the Jews from France.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The government of the Directory in the period of the Thermidorean Reaction


A) primarily relied on the support of the royalists.
B) was unicameral and directly elected by active citizens.
C) was characterized by honest leadership and wise economic plans.
D) increasingly had to rely on military support for its survival.
E) abolished the radical reforms of the Public Safety, including the Revolutionary Calendar.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

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The Bill of Rights ratified by the new United States guaranteed


A) freedom of religion.
B) a prohibition of against firearms except by soldiers and officers of justice.
C) the end of the slave trade but did not free slaves already in America.
D) trials managed only by trained, professional judges, educated with a university degree.
E) all of the above.

F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

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Napoleon was born in


A) Paris.
B) Corsica.
C) Rome.
D) Milan.
E) Tours.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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