Just in time for Bastille Day, try this quiz on what it means to be French

1) What is the ancient Roman name for the Celtic lands that largely corresponded to modern France?
Britannica
La Tene
Gaul

2) Which city did Joan of Arc save from capture by the English?
Bordeaux
Orleans
Calais

3) In the reign of Louis XIII, who was the first minister of France whose unpopular reforms strengthened the reign of the Bourbon kings?
Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
Jean Jacques Regis de Chambaceres

4) July 14 is Bastille Day, which celebrates the overthrow of the Bastille in Paris at the start of the French Revolution. What was the function of the Bastille?
A bank
A prison
A courthouse

5) What was the name of the French army leader who was a hero in World War I but who capitulated to the Germans in World War II and established the satellite state of Vichy France?
Henri Petain
Ferdinand Foch
Charles de Gaulle

6) Who was the king of France during the French Revolution?
Louis XVI
Louis XIV
Napoleon I

7) What year did the revolution begin?
1798
1789
1879

8) Before the revolution, French society was divided into three groups, or estates. What were they?
Royalty, scholars, laborers
Military, clergy, bourgeoisie
Clergy, nobility, commoners

9) Whose death led to the end of the Reign of Terror?
Marie Antoinette
Jean-Paul Marat
Maximilien Robespierre

10) What white, mosque-like church overlooks the city of Paris?
Saint Chappelle
Sacre-Coeur
St. Denis

11) What is the longest river in France?
Seine
Loire
Rhone

12) When was the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, founded?
13th century
10th century
17th century

13) Who wrote "Les Miserables"?
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Victor Hugo

14) Who was the Free French leader during World War II?
Georges Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle
Jacques Chirac

15) When did France both host and win the FIFA World Cup in soccer?
1938
1958
1998