Deck 4: The Roman Empire and the Enduring Legacy of the Ancient World

Question 1

In which of the following countries would the French Revolution have attracted the most amount of sympathy?

A) Spain
B) Austria
C) Switzerland
D) Russia

Answer 1

Switzerland

Question 2

The British Parliament asserted the right to make laws for the American colonies in:

A) the Stamp Act
B) the Mutiny Act
C) the Navigation Acts
D) the Declaratory Act

Answer 2

the Declaratory Act

Question 3

Daniel Shays's rebellion in this state was a catalyst for the meeting of a new constitutional convention in the newly independent United States in 1787:

A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia

Answer 3

Massachusetts

Question 4

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen incorporated the concept of the "general will" from which eighteenth-century French philosopher?

A) Voltaire
B) Rousseau
C) Montesquieu
D) Diderot

Question 5

During the French Revolution the "sansculottes" was a name that referred to members of:

A) the nobility
B) the middle class
C) the working class
D) the peasantry

Question 6

Which of the following two countries were the first to threaten France with invasion after the start of the French Revolution?

A) Spain
B) Austria
C) Prussia
D) England

Question 7

The name of the main governing body in France from 1795 to 1799 was:

A) the Directory
B) the National Assembly
C) the Committee of Public Safety
D) the Consulate

Question 8

When Napoleon first assumed power in France in 1799, he took the title of:

A) emperor
B) king
C) president
D) consul

Question 9

Napoleon negotiated the Treaty of Pressburg making him king of Italy in 1805 with which European country?

A) England
B) Spain
C) Austria
D) Prussia

Question 10

Napoleon's Continental System was intended to isolate:

A) England
B) Spain
C) Russia
D) Prussia

Question 11

Napoleon's war in Spain, where he was also opposed by the English, was called:

A) the Iberian War
B) the Peninsular War
C) the Continental War
D) the War of the Spanish Succession

Question 12

What Catholic order found itself expelled from Spain and Portugal and in trouble in Latin America for putting religious interests ahead of political and commercial considerations?

A) the Franciscans
B) the Dominicans
C) the Augustinians
D) the Jesuits

Question 13

Francisco de Miranda was an early advocate for the independence of which Latin American country?

A) Brazil
B) Ecuador
C) Mexico
D) Venezuela

Question 14

The leader of the independence movement in Chile in the early nineteenth century was:

A) José San Martin
B) Simón Bolivár
C) Bernardo O'Higgins
D) Manuela Saénz

Question 15

After Napoleon's final military defeat and fall from power in 1815, what settlement was reached in Central Europe?

A) a loosely unified German Confederation of 39 states was established
B) the Holy Roman Empire was restored
C) Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine was preserved
D) Germany was united under Prussian leadership

Question 16

Napoleon died in 1821:

A) on the island of Elba off the coast of Italy
B) on the island of St
C) in Paris
D) at the Battle of Waterloo

Question 17

This pamphlet sold 100,000 copies within a year of its initial publication in 1776. What was it called and who wrote it?

Question 18

What significant event happened at the French town of Varennes in 1791?

Question 19

What was the name of the revolutionary body that governed France during the Reign of Terror in 1793-1794?

Question 20

Who was the tsar of Russia at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 1812?

Question 21

In the eighteenth century what was the main form in which discontent with colonial rule manifested itself in Latin America?

Question 22

What was the name of Napoleon's foreign minister who survived his fall from power to negotiate a significant role for France in post-Napoleonic Europe?

Question 23

Was the French Revolution a "modern" revolution? If so, what made it so? Did it fulfill or betray the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Question 24

Why did the French Revolution lead to war? Was this inevitable? If so, why? If not, what might have been done differently in order to prevent it?