WH, Answers to Quiz, Ch. 20

Based on both your reading of the text and the film, answer the following questions.

1. Where did the French Royalty live?
a) Simon Bolivar b) Maria Theresa c) Versailles d) London e) Paris

c) Versailles

2. Who reigned in Austria?
a) Neckar b) George III c) Thomas Paine d) Maria Theresa e)Simon Bolivar
d) Maria Theresa

3. What country elected kings?
a) France b) Britain c) Poland d) England e) Brazil
c) Poland

4. What is the vocabulary word for giving up the throne?
a) deficit spending b) émigré c) divine right of kings d) Neckar e) abdicate
e) abdicate

5. Who trampled on the Magna Carta?
a) Neckar b) Napoleon c) Maria Theresa d) George III e) Marie Antoinette
d) George III

6. Who wrote Common Sense?
a) Thomas Paine b) Napoleon c) Maria Theresa d) George III e) Marie Antoinette
a) Thomas Paine

7. In what year did the French Revolution occur?
a) 1789 b) 1848 c) 1805 d) 1815 e) 1917
a) 1789

8. In what battle was the French Navy destroyed?
a) Waterloo b) Trafalgar c) Battleship Potemkin d) Austerlitz e) Paris
b) Trafalgar

9. In what year did the previous battle occur?
a) 1805 b) 1815 c) 1905 d) 1789 e) 1848
a) 1805

10. Who came to power by forcing his way to power, otherwise known as a coup d’etat?
a) Trafalgar b) Napoleon c) Marx d) Waterloo e) Simon Bolivar
b) Napoleon

11. In what year was Napoleon’s last battle?
a) 1805 b) 1815 c) 1905 d) 1789 e) 1848
b) 1815

12. Revolution occurred in which of the following South American countries?
a) France b) London c) Neckar d) Brazil e) Russia
d) Brazil

13. In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?
a) 1917 b) 1815 c) 1905 d) 1789 e) 1848
a) 1917