Princeton Review - Napoleon Quiz

Napoleon was born in Corsica to a family

• of minor nobility

• of peasants

• of royal lineage

• of bourgeoisie professionals

Napoleon's coup d'etat in Nov. 1799 most immediatly resulted in a new government

• in which Napoleon was First Consul under a new constitution

• a new Constitutional monarchy with King Napoleon I as its head of state

• a democratic form of government in which the legislature was extremely powerful

• a religious autocracy in which the Catholic Church held large influence over government affairs

In 1801, Napoleon created a concordat with Pope Pius VII that declared

• Catholicism was the religion of the great majority of the French people

• Catholicism was the official religion of France

• Catholicism would no longer be tolerated in Napoleonic France

• The Roman Catholic Mass could be said in French under new rules

The Napoleonic Code was significant for ALL of the following reasons EXCEPT

• it unified the entire legal system of France

• it enshrined the equality of all (male) people before the law and safeguarded the rights of property holders

• it reversed some advances made by women during the French Revolution

• it permitted French Catholic Cardinals to serve in major ministerial positions within the new bureaucracy

At the Congress of Vienna, a principle that guided the deliberations of the diplomats was

• balance of power

• utilitarianism

• imperialism

• self-determination

• liberalism

“Which is the German’s fatherland?  Is’t Prussia’s or Swabia’s land?  Is’t where the Rhine’s rich vintage streams?  Or where the Northern sea-gull screams?—  Ah, no, no, no!  His fatherland’s not bounded so!

 

 Which is the German’s fatherland?  Come, tell me now the famous land.  Doubtless, it is the Austrian state,  In honors and in triumphs great.—  Ah, no, no, no!  His fatherland’s not bounded so!

 

 Which is the German’s fatherland?  So tell me now at last the land!—  As far’s the German’s accent rings  And hymns to God in heaven sings,—  That is the land,—  There, brother, is thy fatherland!

 

 There is the German’s fatherland,  Where oaths attest the grasped hand,—  Where truth beams from the sparkling eyes,  And in the heart love warmly lies;—  That is the land,—  There, brother, is thy fatherland!

 

 That is the German’s fatherland,  Where wrath pursues the foreign band,—  Where every Frank [French person] is held a foe,  And Germans all as brothers glow;—  That is the Land,—  All Germany’s thy fatherland!”

 

--Ernst Arndt, German poet, “The German Fatherland,” 1813

The sentiments expressed in the poem are best understood in the context of which of the following?

• Religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Germany

• Reactions against the occupation of Germany by Napoleon’s armies

• Metternich’s attempts to impose conservative ideals across Europe after the Congress of Vienna

• The spread of radical Jacobinism during the French Revolution

“Peoples of these long-oppressed, German lands! As a German I come among you, long-lost brothers who have been won back at great cost! To return you freedom, independence, honor, and happiness in the name of generous-hearted monarchs. Prove yourselves worthy of such great gifts. Earn the blood that has flowed on your behalf. Make willing and immediate sacrifice to secure an honorable, happy future. Seek to earn and preserve what the victorious allied armies* have given you.

Remember the noble German princes, whose rule was happy and who remained worthy in good times and bad. Think of the great Imperial union and the common language, which binds you with us in perpetuity. Prove yourselves worthy of being German, and you will remain so.”

* a reference to the forces of Russia, Prussia, and Austria that had defeated Napoleon in Germany the previous year

--Declaration of Justus Gruner, newly appointed governor-general of the Middle Rhine region after Napoleon's retreat from Germany, 1814

Question

Which of the following best explains why many saw Napoleon as an oppressor, as stated in the passage?

• He imposed the Code Napoleon, a system of laws based on French revolutionary principles, on territories conquered by his armies.

• While he created some representative institutions in conquered regions, in practice these were manipulated to keep Napoleon’s regime in power.

• He redrew territorial boundaries to meet popular nationalist demands, such as creating a new Polish state out of Prussian, Austrian, and Russian territory.

• The creation of systems of primary education under Napoleon was seen as an unjustified intrusion into family life.

The painting of Napoleon shown above portrays him as which of the following?

• A chivalrous hero

• A compassionate humanist

• A competent bureaucrat

• An imperial ruler

The following question refers to the topic of Napoleon’s rise and fall.

Napoleon’s efforts to limit civil rights and restrict domestic opposition are best explained by which of the following?

• The need to maintain a unified France in the face of continued resistance by other European powers to his imperial conquests

• The desire to create an absolute monarchy modeled on the Bourbon dynasty

• The desire to appear as an upholder of Enlightenment political models

• The need to suppress internal opposition to the state-sponsored Cult of the Supreme Being

The following question refers to the topic of Napoleon’s rise and fall.

Napoleon’s mobilization of large conscript armies is best understood as a continuation of the military practices of

• the French wars of religion

• the Thirty Years’ War

• the Bourbon monarchy’s wars of the eighteenth century

• the French Revolutionary period