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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. How did Maria Teresa react to the news of her husband's death?
(a) She was amused.
(b) She was devastated.
(c) She was relieved.
(d) She was apathetic.

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

3. Which of the following groups of people did Antoinette most like to spend her time with before leaving to join her husband?
(a) Girls her own age.
(b) The elderly.
(c) No one, she preferred to be alone.
(d) Children.

4. Which of the following women accused Antoinette of having inappropriately lewd relationships with her female friends?
(a) Abbe de Vermond
(b) Princess de Lamballe.
(c) Isabella of Parma.
(d) Contesse de Noailles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Antoinette meet Count Axe Ferson?

2. Which of his relatives was Louis XVI closest to?

3. How did Isabella of Parma die?

4. Which of the following countries was Maria Teresa queen of through bloodlines?

5. Which of the following names was NOT one of Marie Antoinette's middle names upon birth?

(see the answer key)

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