Deck 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism

Question 1

The English Romantics generally opposed the ideas of _______.

A)the scientific revolution
B)the Enlightenment
C)the Reformation
D)the Renaissance

Answer 1

the Enlightenment

Question 2

Food canning was invented by ________.

A)Mikhail Kutuzov
B)Nicholas Appert
C)Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
D)Abbé Siéyès

Answer 2

Nicholas Appert

Question 3

Romantics were drawn to the art,literature,and architecture of ________.

A)ancient Rome
B)ancient Greece
C)medieval Europe
D)the New World

Answer 3

medieval Europe

Question 4

What was the name of the 1802 accord between France and Britain?

A)The Treaty of Campo Formio
B)The Peace of Amiens
C)The Treaty of Pressburg
D)The Treaty of Chaumont

Question 5

The Treaty of Campo Formio took which country out of war with France?

A)Italy
B)Belgium
C)Austria
D)Spain

Question 6

One of the central features of the Romantic movement in Germany was the emergence of ________.

A)nationalism
B)rebellion
C)chauvinism
D)partisanship

Question 7

The declaration of Napoleon as emperor of France was ratified by ________.

A)a plebiscite
B)a voice vote in the Assembly
C)a consul of the republic
D)the Second Coalition

Question 8

By the end of 1810,what country had withdrawn from the Continental System?

A)Spain
B)Russia
C)Denmark
D)Italy

Question 9

In what country was canning invented?

A)Britain
B)Russia
C)France
D)Belgium

Question 10

François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture led an uprising in _______.

A)Canada
B)Haiti
C)southern France
D)Cuba

Question 11

Who wrote The Critique of Pure Reason?

A)Immanuel Kant
B)John Locke
C)Thomas Hobbes
D)Émile Zola

Question 12

Who was the commander who destroyed the French fleet at Abukir in 1798?

A)William Pitt the Younger
B)Nicholas Appert
C)Sir Arthur Wellesley
D)Horatio Nelson

Question 13

Revolutionary policies regarding what organization garnered the most domestic opposition?

A)the secret police
B)the Napoleonic Code
C)the French Catholic Church
D)the Jacobins

Question 14

Who established the Third Coalition for the British?

A)William Pitt the Younger
B)Nicholas Appert
C)Sir Arthur Wellesley
D)Horatio Nelson

Question 15

The Second Coalition against France was made up of ________.

A)Russia,Austria,the Ottoman Empire,and Britain
B)Russia,Austria,Italy,and Britain
C)Russia,Belgium,the Ottoman Empire,and Britain
D)Egypt,Austria,the Ottoman Empire,and Britain

Question 16

In 1805,which two countries joined the British against France?

A)Spain and Germany
B)Spain and Belgium
C)Russia and Austria
D)Russia and Germany

Question 17

The Continental System initially extended as far east as ________.

A)Denmark
B)Sweden
C)Austria
D)Russia

Question 18

The Treaty of Chaumont restored this group to the French throne: the ________.

A)Toulonese
B)Directorates
C)Lunevillians
D)Bourbons

Question 19

What Is the Third Estate? was written by ________.

A)Sir Walter Scott
B)Abbé Siéyès
C)Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
D)Edward FitzGerald

Question 20

Following the Congress of Vienna,which country gained control of northern Italy?

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

Question 21

The novel of the Romantic Era that influenced ideas about society was ________.

A)Émile by Lord Byron
B)The Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
C)Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
D)Émile by Rousseau

Question 22

The most important Romantic German philosopher concerned with history was ________.

A)Hegel
B)Herder
C)Fichte
D)Goethe

Question 23

What was the effect of the Treaty of Amiens?

A)It brought temporary peace to Europe.
B)It took Austria out of the war.
C)It made peace with Russia.
D)It increased public confidence in Napoleon.

Question 24

What caused the end of the Holy Roman Empire?

A)Napoleon's success against Francis II
B)the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine
C)the death of Francis II
D)the alliance between Prussia and France

Question 25

The Battle of Trafalgar _________.

A)ended any possibility of France invading England
B)took Prussia out of the war
C)took Russia out of the war
D)led to a short-lived peace

Question 26

After the Treaty of Tilsit,Napoleon aimed to cripple the British by ________.

A)cutting off all trade between Britain and the rest of Europe
B)taking on the British navy one fleet at a time
C)attacking nations that Britain traded with
D)turning France into a free-trade empire

Question 27

The Hundred Days refers to the ________.

A)amount of time it took to complete the Vienna Conference
B)time that Napoleon spent invading Russia
C)time between the signing of the Treaty of Chaumont and the convening of the Congress of Vienna
D)period of Napoleon's return from Elba before his exile to Saint Helena

Question 28

What motivated the French government to pursue the invention of canned food?

A)They wanted to strengthen their navy.
B)They wanted to preserve wasted food from farms.
C)They wanted to bring better nutrition to French citizens.
D)The cost of bread was high and put pressure on the navy to find other sources of nutrition for its sailors.

Question 29

Immanuel Kant argued that human perception is as much a product of the mind's activity as of ________.

A)sensory perception
B)human mortality
C)the influence of a free society
D)the existence of God

Question 30

Napoleon worked to restore order in France,in part by ________.

A)decentralizing the administration
B)banishing from the country those who had opposed him
C)doing away with the secret police
D)employing men from various political groups

Question 31

Jean-Jacques Rousseau laid out how to live a good life without being adversely influenced by society in _________.

A)Constitutional Project for Corsica
B)The Social Contract
C)Letters Written from the Mountain
D)Émile

Question 32

What treaty gave France control of the areas in Italy north of Rome?

A)the Treaty of Campo Formio
B)the Treaty of Pressburg
C)the Treaty of Tilsit
D)the Treaty of Chaumont

Question 33

The Quadruple Alliance was an agreement between ________.

A)Britain,Austria,Russia,and Prussia
B)France,Austria,Russia and Prussia
C)the Netherlands,Prussia,Italy,and Sardinia
D)France,Belgium,Britain,and Spain

Question 34

Which of these resulted from the Haitian uprising?

A)Napoleon suppressed all dissent in France.
B)The uprising was suppressed and Haiti was made a French province again.
C)The U.S.made the Louisiana Purchase.
D)Slavery disappeared in Latin America.

Question 35

What group had a key influence on the development of Methodism,following an encounter with its founder?

A)the Moravians
B)the Reformers
C)the Roman Catholics
D)the Spanish

Question 36

What was Napoleon's objective in capturing Egypt from the Ottoman Empire?

A)He hoped to drive the British fleet from the Mediterranean.
B)He hoped to make a foothold of Christianity in Egypt.
C)He hoped to establish a port for France in Africa.
D)He hoped to capture treasures from wealthy Egyptian rulers.

Question 37

For his service in recovering the port of Toulon from the British,Napoleon was _________.

A)appointed a brigadier general
B)given command in Italy
C)asked to serve as First Consul
D)asked to serve as head of the Directory

Question 38

What had Pope Pius VII hoped to see in the Concordat issued by Napoleon?

A)the statement that most French citizens were Catholic
B)the restoration of all confiscated church property
C)the control over who appointed clergy and bishops
D)religious dominance for the Roman Catholic Church in France

Question 39

What event gave Napoleon the excuse he needed to crown himself emperor?

A)the challenge to his authority by the pope
B)the publication of the Civil Code of 1804
C)an assassination attempt
D)the defeat of his military advances at Trafalgar

Question 40

Who were the members of the Confederation of the Rhine?

A)western German princes
B)French aristocrats
C)former Jacobins
D)Russian and Prussian nobles

Question 41

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt was part of the same development as ________.

A)the creation of the Third Coalition
B)the Battle of Trafalgar
C)the Hundred Days
D)Catherine the Great's seizure of Crimea

Question 42

After divorcing Josephine,Napoleon married ___________.

Question 43

In Spain,Napoleon faced ________.

A)well-organized military forces
B)a powerful navy
C)harsh winter conditions
D)guerrilla warfare

Question 44

The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Josephine is by ________.

Question 45

Napoleon invited Pope ___________ to take part in his coronation.

Question 46

Napoleon signed the Treaty of Tilsit with ___________.

Question 47

The long peninsular campaign in Spain ________.

A)led to religious tolerance for Spaniards
B)drained French strength and hastened Napoleon's eventual defeat
C)repaired tensions between France and the pope
D)established new alliances with Egypt and the Ottoman Empire

Question 48

The divorce of Napoleon and Josephine de Beauharnais was part of the same ambitious design as Napoleon's _________.

A)coronation
B)invasion of Egypt
C)continental system
D)return from Elba

Question 49

Which of the following statements best articulates the success of the Congress of Vienna?

A)The congress failed to prevent the destructive forces of nationalism in Europe.
B)The congress can be credited with preventing general war for a hundred years.
C)The congress addressed the major problems that would face Europe in the decades to follow.
D)The congress effectively dealt with Napoleon's aggression.

Question 50

Complete the analogy: Rococo artists are to Renaissance models as Romantic artists are to the ________.

A)ancient world
B)early modern world
C)Middle Ages
D)Revolutionary period

Question 51

The thing that made Lyrical Ballads unique is that it ________.

A)was written by two friends
B)was written by Coleridge and Wordsworth
C)embodied Romantic poetry
D)rejected the rules of eighteenth-century criticism

Question 52

What did John Wesley learn from the German Moravians in his transatlantic crossing?

A)their unswerving faith
B)the power of music in worship
C)practical piety
D)the purity of repentance

Question 53

The Organic Articles of 1802 established ________.

A)the church's rights to confiscated property
B)that the church would pay the salaries of the clergy
C)the supremacy of state over church
D)the supremacy of church over state

Question 54

Which statement would most likely be embraced by the English Romantic writers?

A)The mind is a passive receptor.
B)Poetry is an exercise that follows prescribed rules.
C)The artist's imagination is God at work in the mind.
D)Poetry is idle play.

Question 55

The Confederation of the Rhine is just one example of _______.

A)nationalistic responses to Napoleon's conquests
B)Napoleon's interference in political affairs across Europe
C)the devastation of the Napoleonic wars
D)coalitions that sprang up in defense against Napoleon's invasions

Question 56

The ___________ established the rule of a single person in France,despite the appearance of democratic principles and a system of checks and balances.

Question 57

The characters in Romantic novels were _______.

A)treated as symbols of the larger truth of life
B)treated as simple,carefree lovers
C)depicted in the everyday world of the eighteenth century
D)depicted as carrying the heavy burdens of a difficult life

Question 58

The Sorrows of Young Werther is quintessentially Romantic in being __________.

A)highly emotional
B)focused on women's issues
C)dark
D)written in the vernacular

Question 59

August Wilhelm von Schlegel's Lucinde was typical of German Romantic writings in what way?

A)It subjected emotion to reason.
B)It celebrated the Enlightenment.
C)It was a novel.
D)It appealed primarily to intellectuals.

Question 60

When Napoleon invaded Russia,________.

A)the Russian forces stood their ground and fought bravely
B)the Russian forces retreated,destroying food and supplies as they went
C)guerrilla warriors sniped at the forces and cut supply lines
D)he successfully defeated the Russian army

Question 61

The founder of Methodism was ___________.

Question 62

Describe the German philosophy of idealism.How did this approach fit into the larger context of its time?

Question 63

Explain why Romantic artists idealized rural life.What forces were they reacting to?

Question 64

Together with his good friend Samuel Coleridge,___________ wrote Lyrical Ballads.

Question 65

Explain the Romantics' reasons for the departure from religious views that held sway during the Enlightenment.

Question 66

In his book,On Heroes and Hero-Worship,Thomas Carlyle presented ________ as the embodiment of the hero as prophet.

Question 67

In what ways did the viewpoint of Romantic writers differ from the rational viewpoint of Enlightenment intellectuals?

Question 68

The Haitian uprising was begun by _______.

Question 69

Characterize Napoleon's relationship with Russia following the Treaty of Tilsit.What drew the Russians into the alliance?

Question 70

Explain the reasons that the Hundred Days period had an adverse affect on the peace settlement for France?

Question 71

Lucinde was written by ___________.

Question 72

What political advantage did Napoleon gain by making peace with Pope Pius VII?

Question 73

___________ of Russia wanted all of Poland under his control.

Question 74

Explain why German intellectuals urged resistance to Napoleon.

Question 75

Kant's ___________ refers to an innate sense of moral duty.

Question 76

The imaginations of the Romantics were fired by the medieval ___________ against Islam.

Question 77

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows was painted by ___________.

Question 78

How did ideas about Islam change for Europeans during the Romantic Era? Explain the reasons for these changes.

Question 79

___________ and ___________ believed that adults should allow childlike sentiments to flourish.

Question 80

Explain why the establishment of Consulate effectively ended the revolution in France.