4.2 Quizzer: Radical Revolution & Reaction

During the French Revolution, who ordered the execution of king Louis XVI?

• The Estates-General

• The National Assembly

• The French Senate

• Robespierre

How was king Louis XVI executed?

• firing squad

• guillotine

• gallows

• burning at the stake

What was the Reign of Terror?

• king Louis XVI's reign

• reformations made to the church during the French Revolution

• A set of harsh policies put in place to persecute counter-revolutionaries

• Napoleon Bonaparte's reign

Violence during the Reign of Terror was primarily directed towards________________.

• the French

• the British

• Americans

• Germans

What institution did French revolutionaries try to eliminate from public life in the more radical period of the French Revolution?

• The Catholic Church

• Public education

• Libraries

• Free elections

During the Reign of Terror, the French government assembled Europe's first...

• Houses of Parliament

• people's army

• free elections

• calendar

The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute...

• Austrian prisoners

• counterrevolutionaries and traitors.

• Robespierre's followers.

• the sans-culottes and other members of the Paris Commune

a sudden overthrow of the government is

• coup d'etat

• Directory

• elector

• Reign of Terror

Two houses of legislature appointed Napoleon as the general was of the...

• Directory of 1794

• French electorate

• coup d'etat

• consumer affairs

Which factors were primarily responsible for the overthrow of the French government in 1799?

• Corruption, political enemies of the Directory, and the rise of Napoleon

• The Committee for Public Safety, Robespierre, and Napoleon

• The Directory's coup d'état, the invasion of foreign enemies, and political radicals

• the threat of foreign invasions, royalists, and the reinstatement of the monarchy