AP World History MCQ: World History Chapter 7

World History Chapter 7

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Who was the most influential leader at the Congress of Vienna?

a. Czar Alexander I of Russia
b. Emperor Francis I of Austria
c. King Frederick William III of Prussia
d. Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria

Answer: d

Which of the following was an important goal of the Congress of Vienna.

a. to destroy France
b. to execute Napoleon by guillotine
c. to establish a balance of power in Europe
d. to establish Vienna as the new capital of France

Answer: c

What was Napoleon able to accomplish during peacetime?

a. He set up government-run public schools.
b. He set up a comprehensive system of laws
c. He established a fairer tax code.
d. All of the above.

Answer: d

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

a. no one
b. the nobility
c. known revolutionaries
d. only Maximilien Robespierre

Answer: a

Which document stated that "men are born and remain free and equal rights."

a. Holy Alliance
b. Declaration of the Rights of Man
c. Declaration of Independence
d. Napoleonic Code

Answer: b

What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?

a. Robespierre was executed by guillotine.
b. French women marched all the way to Versailles.
c. A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.
d. All of the above.

Answer: c

About what percent of France's population belonged to the Third Estate?

a. 1
b. 10
c. 50
d. 98

Answer: d

The person most responsible for the accomplishments of the Congress of Vienna was

a. Czar Alexander I of Russia
b. Emperor Francis I of Austria
c. King Frederick William III of Prussia
d. Prince Klemens von Metternich of Austria

Answer: d

In 1812, Napoleon and 400,000 troops encountered severe difficulties as a result of the ____________ used by the Russian leader in response to France's invasion.

a. scorched-earth policy
b. King Louis XVIII
c. Battle of Waterloo
d. Continental System

Answer: a

Great Britain responded with a ________________ against France, which became the major cause of a war between Great Britain and the United States.

a. blockade
b. guerrillas
c. Hundred Days
d. Peninsular War

Answer: a

In 1806, Napoleon attempted to make Europe more self-sufficient through the use of what he termed the _______

In 1806, Napoleon attempted to make Europe more self-sufficient through the use of what he termed the ______________

a. blockade
b. guerrillas
c. Hundred Days
d. Continental System

Answer: d

Out of fear for their own safety, members of this group finally put an end to the Reign of Terror.

a. Legislative Assembly
b. emigres
c. sans-culottes
d. left-wing
e. right-wing

Answer:

AB. National Assembly
AC. Olympe de Gouges
AD. Maximilien Robespierre
AE. guillotine
BC. Jean-Paul Marat
BD. National Convention
BE. Georges Danton
bd. National Convention

Just before being beheaded, this person suggested that his severed head would be "well worth seeing."

This was invented to further humane goals, though often used in contradiction to such goals.

This radical revolutionary was fatally stabbed by another revolutionary.

This person claimed it was possible to build a "republic of virtue" by means of what came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

This person wrote a strong response to "A Declaration of the Rights of Man and of a Citizen" because it did not give the same rights to women as it gave to men.