French Revolution Quiz

The participation of women such as the poissardes led to which of the following during the early phases of the French Revolution?

• Wage equality for women.

• Permanent legal equality for women, but no political rights.

• Temporary improvements in women's legal status, undone by Napoleon.

• Loss of rights previously held by women.

The events referred to in the song led most directly to which of the following?

• The formalization of a constitutional monarchy in France.

• The beginning of the War of the First Coalition.

• The installation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French.

• The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy.

Based on the preamble, the authors of the French Constitution of 1791 were most heavily influenced by which of the following?

• Enlightenment thought

• Nationalism

• Religious sentiment

• Romanticism

The first two parts of the preamble best support which of the following conclusions about the French Revolution’s goals?

• The revolutionaries sought to create an Enlightened absolutist monarchy.

• The revolutionaries were advocates of religious toleration.

• The revolutionaries sought to spread their ideas to other European nations.

• The revolutionaries wanted to transform the traditional political order.

The leaders of the rest of Europe saw the ideas in the preamble as a threat because of which of the following reasons?

• The ideas threatened to transform the social and political hierarchies of Europe.

• The ideas used the power of nationalism to mobilize a powerful military.

• The ideas challenged Enlightenment belief in reason and empiricism.

• The ideas risked a revival of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants.

Which of the following most accurately describes the political system of the Dutch republic of the seventeenth century?

• Popular democracy

• Rule by an absolute monarch

• Rule by wealthy merchants

• Control by feudal lords

The leadership of the Dutch Revolt (1568-1648) sought all EXCEPT which of the following?

• An alliance with the English Catholics

• The end of the Inquisition

• The end of excessive taxation

• Elimination of the rule by foreign officials

The Intendant System established in seventeenth-century France primarily to accomplish which of the following goals?

• Empower the French nobility

• Implement royal policies locally

• Make the peasantry return to the land

• Oversee conscription for the Royal Army

The French Fronde is best described as which of the following?

• The first government formed after the French Revolution

• A civil war fought between Roman Catholics and Protestants

• A revolt over increasing centralization of royal power

• Wars between France and the Holy Roman Empire

The features of seventeenth-century Dutch life reflected in the painting were largely a result of which of the following?

• Dutch territorial gains in the Thirty Years' War.

• Dutch financial innovation and overseas trade.

• The accession of a member of the Dutch House of Orange to the throne of England.

• The successful raids of Dutch privateers against Spanish treasure fleets.