AP European History Napoleon Quiz

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What is the most accurate comparison of each author's overall view of the French Revolution?

Barzun views the French Revolution positively, while Thatcher views it negatively

Napoleon's primary aim in establishing the Continental System was to...

Destroy Great Britain's economy

Napoleon Bonaparte's repressive occupation sparked a violent popular revolt in...

Spain

What is an accurate comparison of each author's view of the causes of the French Revolution?

Barzun asserts that it originated from the idea of individual liberty created by the Reformation, while Thatcher argues that it came from radical Enlightenment intellectuals

What accurately describes the Napoleonic Code?

It protected private property and the authority of husbands within the family

The painting of Napoleon shown above portrays him as...

An imperial ruler

In subsequent years, the French government used the institutions created by the decree to...

Attempt to spread French Revolutionary ideals throughout Europe

What is the most accurate description of a similarity in the ideas of the two authors?

Both authors see the French Revolution as an attempt to change the traditional order

The French government issued the decree primarily in response to...

Domestic unrest and foreign aggression against the radical Revolutionary government

The dark areas in the map above represent the...

Farthest extent of lands ruled directly by Napoleonic France

Napoleon's establishment of what he called republics in various conquered territories is best explained by...

His nominal adherence to the French Revolutionary principle of popular sovereignty

A historian would be most likely to use the two images as evidence that the Napoleonic Wars...

Inspired nationalist sentiment in both Germany and Spain

Which of the following best explains why Napoleon's empire provoked nationalist reactions across Europe, as suggested by the passage?

Napoleon used nationalism to mobilize the mass armies that facilitated his conquests, and his methods were copied and in some cases amplified by his rivals

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

The French Revolutionary period

Countries in the coalitions that opposed Revolutionary and Napoleonic France were most eager to adopt which provision of the decree?

The creation of nationally based mass conscript armies

What actions by Napoleon aided the cause of German unification?

The elimination of many small states and the political reorganization of territory

Napoleon's efforts to limit civil rights and restrict domestic opposition are best explained by what?

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

All the following statements are historically accurate. Which would most strongly support Gruner's characterization in the second paragraph of the rule of German princes before Napoleon?

There were virtually no instances of significant popular rebellions against German princes in the eighteenth century

What best explains why many saw Napoleon as an oppressor, as stated in the passage?

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


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