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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Dauphine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness claimed King Louis XV's life?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Smallpox.

2. Whom did Antoinette nickname "Madame Etiquette"?
(a) Abbe de Vermond
(b) Isabella of Parma.
(c) Contesse de Noailles.
(d) Princesse de Lamballe.

3. What number in the birth order was Marie Antoinette?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Nineteenth.
(c) Fifteenth.
(d) Eleventh.

4. How did Antoinette's father die?
(a) From smallpox.
(b) From a stroke.
(c) From cancer.
(d) From yellow fever.

5. To which of the following European countries did Austria belong to at the time of Antoinette's birth?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following objects did Marie Teresa compare her children?

2. What was Marie Antoinette's nickname upon birth?

3. To whom did Antoinette's father cling to before he unexpectedly died, almost as if he had a presentiment of his death?

4. What was Marie Antoinette's father's name?

5. How long did Antoinette wait before consummating her marriage to Louis XVI?

(see the answer key)

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