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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Louis executed?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He was beheaded.
(c) He was drown.
(d) He was hanged.

2. How was the Pope's decision to call Louis' death a martyrdom received by the French people?
(a) They were saddened.
(b) They were outraged.
(c) They were confused.
(d) They were pleased.

3. Which of Antoinette's friends was rumored to be the father of her children?
(a) There were no rumors of paternity.
(b) Fersen.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Count de Lamballe.

4. How many years after Antoinette's execution did Fersen die?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Two.
(d) Seventeen.

5. How old was the young dauphin when he died?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Sixteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the young dauphin die?

2. What caused Antoinette's extreme depression during the upheaval of France?

3. Which of Antoinette's brothers refuses to help when he hears that Antoinette and her family are in exile?

4. Where did Louis' aunts escape to during their time in exile?

5. What color dress did Antoinette wear on her execution day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the reaction from the people when Louis XVI was executed?

2. How did Louis Charles adjust to life in exile?

3. Where did the royal family go on their first vacation outside of their imprisonment?

4. What happened to Marie Therese after her mother's death?

5. How did Antoinette's brother, Leopold, react to the news that Antoinette and her family were imprisoned?

6. How did Sophie die?

7. What was Antoinette's final request to her children in the days before her execution?

8. How did the angry mobs take out their anger on the noblemen across the country?

9. Why didn't Marie Antoinette ever escape life in exile when she was given the opportunity?

10. What controversial decision did the Pope make after Louis XVI's death, and how was it received by the public?

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