Quiz  /  France: A History Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which peasant girl led the French army at Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War?

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Joan of Arc
  • Mathilde of Flanders
  • Elizabeth I

  • 2. 
    Which of the following places is famous as Napoleon I’s place of exile?

  • Waterloo
  • Elba
  • Wellington
  • Tuscany

  • 3. 
    Which holiday commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution?

  • Independence Day
  • Bastille Day
  • Republic Day
  • Bloody Sunday

  • 4. 
    Which treaty, signed at a French palace, is known for its “war guilt” clause?

  • Unequal Treaty
  • Treaty of Paris
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Treaty of Madrid

  • 5. 
    Which battle was Napoleon I’s final defeat?

  • Battle of Borodino
  • Siege of Toulon
  • Battle of Ulm
  • Battle of Waterloo

  • 6. 
    What queen’s actions contributed to the unrest that led to the French Revolution?

  • Astrid of Sweden
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Maria Theresa
  • Marie-Antoinette

  • 7. 
    Which radical leader of the French Revolution was assassinated in his bath?

  • Robespierre
  • Jean-Paul Marat
  • Georges Danton
  • Marquis de Lafayette

  • 8. 
    Which treaty, signed in 1763, concluded the Seven Years’ War?

  • Treaty of Paris
  • Peace of Vereeniging
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty

  • 9. 
    Who negotiated the Triple Alliance between England, France, and Holland in 1717?

  • Robert Walpole
  • James Stanhope
  • John Calvin
  • William Pulteney

  • 10. 
    Which medieval emperor, born in what is today France, faced a revolt of his sons at the “Field of Lies” in 833?

  • Frederick I
  • Louis I
  • Henry IV
  • Charlemagne

  • 11. 
    Which pope’s struggle with King Philip IV of France marked the end of papal spiritual dominance and the rise of national monarchies?

  • Innocent IV
  • Boniface VIII
  • Peter
  • John Paul II

  • 12. 
    Which battle established British naval supremacy and shattered Napoleon I’s plans to invade England?

  • Battle of Waterloo
  • Battle of Trafalgar
  • Battle of Lepanto
  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • 13. 
    What historian was executed by the Nazis for his leadership in the French Resistance?

  • Georges Duby
  • Fernand Braudel
  • Marc Bloch
  • Lucien Febvre

  • 14. 
    Which French emperor was also known as “the Little Corporal”?

  • Napoleon II
  • Napoleon III
  • Napoleon I
  • Adolphe Thiers

  • 15. 
    Which English statesman published inflammatory conservative commentary in his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790?

  • Charles James Fox
  • John Wilkes
  • Edmund Burke
  • William Pitt

  • 16. 
    Who among the following has not been identified as the man in the iron mask?

  • Molière
  • an English nobleman
  • Louis XIV
  • Louis de Bourbon
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