Napoleon Quiz

6) The Russians defeated Napoleon's Grand Army by

• retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside.
• waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter.
• splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides.
• joining with Egypt, which attacked Turkey to draw Napoleon from Russia.

7) Napoleon's empire collapsed because of

• Napoleon's greed and laziness with his bureaucracy.
• the coalition of other European states and the force of nationalism.
• the resentment of the clergy and the plotting of accountants.
• France's weak economy and the drain of Napoleon's many wars.

8) Why did the Russian people burn their fields as the retreated eastward?

• so the French wouldn't want to live in Moscow
• Russians believed this how war should be fought
• so soldiers couldn't get any food , making things difficult for the invasion
• French people did the same thing when Russia invaded

9) Klemens von Metternich was the

• general who defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile.
• most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna.
• Russian czar that never surrendered to Napoleon's Grand Army.
• French politician that handed Napoleon over to the British.

10) One of the goals of the great powers at the Congress of Vienna was to

• prevent the spread of liberal ideas.
• force the idea of conservatism on Europe.
• pursue the philosophy of liberalism by creating a Bill of Rights.
• build up a continental army to keep Napoleon from gaining power again.

11) True or False. The rise of nationalism contributed to the collapse of Napoleon’s Grand Empire.

• True
• False

12) True or False Waterloo was the island Napoleon was exiled to after he was defeated for the final time by the coalition armies of Europe.

• True
• False

13) True or False Immediately after his successful coup d'etat, Napoleon declared France an empire and crowned himself emperor.

• True
• False

14) True or False Napoleon built the largest empire in Europe since Rome.

• True
• False

15) True or False One of the goals of the Congress of Vienna was to divide lands of Napoleon.

• True
• False