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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. Which of the following people did NOT have a problem with the king's consort's presence in court?
(a) Louis XV.
(b) Antoinette.
(c) Louis XVI.
(d) The ladies-in-waiting.

2. In what year did Antoinette get her first period?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1770.
(c) 1760.
(d) 1790.

3. How did Isabella of Parma die?
(a) From smallpox.
(b) In childbirth.
(c) She drowned.
(d) From yellow fever.

4. How did Antoinette respond the first time Louis questioned whether or not she loved him.
(a) She assured him that she did.
(b) She laughed in his face.
(c) She told him the truth - that she did not.
(d) She ignored his question completely.

5. What country was Count Axe Ferson from?
(a) Poland.
(b) England.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following courts was limited only to nobles?

2. Which of the following activities most interested Antoinette when she was a small child?

3. Which of Antoinette's family members accused her of having "lost her bloom" at the tender age of fifteen?

4. To which of the following European countries did Austria belong to at the time of Antoinette's birth?

5. Which of Antoinette's brothers stood in as her by-proxy husband during the first wedding ceremony?

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