7th Grade History Name: _________________________________________ Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap Quiz over Chapter 18 France in the Modern Age
1. How did France emerge from the Middle Ages?____________________________________________________
2. What is the name of the French version of Parliament?________________________________________
3. What name was given to the French Protestants?________________________________
4. Name the mother of these three weak French kings, Francis I, Charles IX, Henry III.______________________________
5. What happened @ the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre? _____________________________________________________
6. How did the pope react to the massacre?___________________________________________________________________
7. Louis XIV had the Palace of _________________ built to keep the nobility occupied and called himself the "_____________".
8. What did Louis XV say would happen after he died?__________________________________________________________
9. Name the one French thinkers of the Enlightenment. _____________________________________________________
10. Louis XVI was eventually _____________________________________ and ________________________________
11. List three causes of the French Revolution. 1.__________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________________
12. Who was the influential man in the French National government? ___________________________________________
13. By the time of the Reign of Terror when the masses rose up what did they try to eliminate? ______________________
14. What seemed to be the idea of the guillotine? _____________________________________________________________
15. A new government " National Assembly " was set up declaring all citizens equal with "___________,__________, _____ "
16.In contrast, the American Revolution was a success because it was not a ____________________________ movement
but rather grounded in __________________________________________, not merely ________________________ desires.
17. Americans declared declared independence for _______________________ not ________________________________.
18. Military hero Napoleon becomes _______________________ of France. Before long Napoleon had control of _______.
19. At the Naval Battle of Trafalgar English and Lord ______________ defeated the French. As a result the English controlled
the high seas.
20. What defeated Napoleon in Russia? ____________________________ and ____________________________________
21. Napoleon is exiled to Elba and later returns to France and is finally defeated at the Battle of ________________________.
22. Congress of Vienna: restored the European __________________________________________ to their rightful throne.
23. Charles X took over in France / Citizens rebelled and over threw the king in the _______________________ Revolution
24. Louis Philippe took over and eventually Louis Napoleon became Emperor ___________________________________ III.
