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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Antoinette think Jacques should be reinstated as finance minister?

2. Who helped Antoinette reinstate Necker?

3. Why does Antoinette start wearing especially thick undergarments?

4. What did the mob hurl at Antoinette and her family?

5. Why do members of the royal family and noblemen want to escape France?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Antoinette and her family plan to escape the Tuileries?

2. How do things start to get worse for Antoinette at the end of this section?

3. Describe the scandal with Cardinal Rohan?

4. What part of the plan to escape does Antoinette initiate in this section?

5. How does France celebrate the one year anniversary of the Bastille invasion?

6. How was the climate of the court changing?

7. What problems are France having in this section?

8. How is the political situation changing at the beginning of chapter twenty eight?

9. Why does Antoinette want to get away from Paris?

10. Why is Mirabeau important to the king?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the the economic problems in France contribute to the intense political situation at the end of the book? How could the upper classes have avoided this situation? Were the upper classes entirely to blame for the problems?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Marie Antoinette's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the person she is at the end.

1. What did Antoinette hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes her ideas about life?

3. How has Antoinette's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the effects of the following people's deaths.

1. Marie Antoinette.

2. King Louis XV.

3. Marie Theresa.

4. Mirabeau.

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