French Rev/Rise & Fall of Napoleon

Which of the following best describes the tax system in France before the revolution?

• The Third Estate paid most of the taxes

• The church paid the most amount of taxes

• The French government did not collect taxes

• The second Estate paid most of the taxes

What was the guillotine used for?

• public executions

• medical procedures

• civil lawsuits

• public education

Whose term of leadership was known as the Reign of Terror?

• Louis XVI

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Jean-Paul Marat

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation:

• lycee

• concordat

• coup d'etat

• guillotine

The Queen of France just before the revolution:

• Queen Elizabeth

• Marie Antoinette

• Queen Mary

• Lucie Mannette

What was the new, uniform system of French civil laws?

• Concordat

• The Continental system

• Napoleonic Code

• Peninsular Code

Where was Napoleon's final defeat?

• Spain

• Waterloo

• Austerlitz

• Moscow

When the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (1789) at the start of the French Revolution, they were attempting to:

• establish a military government

• draft a new constitution

• restore the king to power

• overthrow the First Estate

Who led the Committee of Public Safety, but was eventually arrested and beheaded by that committee?

• Louis XVI

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Jean-Paul Marat

Which of the following describes why Napoleon was able to quickly gain power? 

• The French political system was finally stable after Robespierre executed any enemy of the republic
• The political and economic problems that the revolution tried to fix still existed and the people were desperate for change
• The newly created French republic of virtue insisted on having a firm leader that would expand the empire across all of Europe
• All of the above