HIST 101 Final, Fall 2005

Department of History and Archaeology HISTORY 101 Final Examination February 2, 2006 PART ONE: Instructions: Answer any two of the following questions. Write clearly and coherently 1. ial, legal, political and economic dimensions in pre revolutionary France and comment on its relevance to the actual state of affairs in the country on the eve of the revolution. 2. een its constituent parts (including France) and the main reasons for its ultimate failure. 3. assertions and try to explain them. 4. did the peasants play in the French Revolution? 5. Constituent Assembly and comment on its consequences for the revolution, church-state relations and the general attitude of the Catholic Church in the 19th century. 6. Who were the following political groups in terms of the social and economic interests that each represented and their respective roles in the Revolution: the Jacobins, the Girondins and the Mountain? PART TWO: Identify, explain or comment briefly on any two of the following items: 1. eminent property rights 2. Tennis Court Oath 3. the Rights of Man 4. Reign of terror 5. Volksgeist 6. Holly Alliance