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  • 1. On what date was Napoleon's autopsy performed?
A) 5 May
B) 15 December
C) 8 May
D) 6 May
  • 2. Who conducted the autopsy on Napoleon?
A) Thomas Shortt
B) Thomas Reade
C) Antommarchi
D) Walter Henry
  • 3. How many British medical practitioners were present at the autopsy?
A) Ten
B) Seven
C) Five
D) Four
  • 4. What did the autopsy reports conclude was the cause of Napoleon's death?
A) Poisoning
B) Pneumonia
C) Stomach cancer
D) Heart attack
  • 5. Whose death was also caused by the disease that killed Napoleon?
A) His grandfather
B) His son
C) His father
D) His brother
  • 6. How many total autopsy reports were eventually produced?
A) Seven
B) Two
C) Three
D) Five
  • 7. Who wrote the official British autopsy report?
A) Thomas Reade
B) Antommarchi
C) Thomas Shortt
D) Walter Henry
  • 8. In what year did Assistant Surgeon Walter Henry write his unofficial autopsy report to Lowe?
A) 1840
B) 1821
C) 1823
D) 1825
  • 9. Which autopsy report is considered unreliable because it was partially plagiarized?
A) Antommarchi's original 1821 report
B) Antommarchi's 1825 report
C) Walter Henry's report
D) Thomas Shortt's report
  • 10. Where was Napoleon buried initially?
A) Valley of the Geraniums
B) Les Invalides
C) St Jérôme's Chapel
D) Paris
  • 11. What body parts were removed and sealed inside Napoleon's coffin?
A) Lungs and kidneys
B) Heart and brain
C) Brain and liver
D) Heart and intestines
  • 12. Which body part was allegedly removed during the autopsy, sold, and exhibited?
A) His ear
B) His finger
C) His penis
D) His hand
  • 13. Which government gave permission to return Napoleon's remains to France in 1840?
A) The Russian government
B) The Austrian government
C) The French government
D) The British government
  • 14. Who was given permission to return Napoleon's remains to France?
A) Louis Philippe I
B) Louis Visconti
C) Antommarchi
D) Napoleon III
  • 15. How many coffins was Napoleon's body sealed in, which kept it well preserved?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Four
D) Two
  • 16. What materials made up the four coffins sealing Napoleon's body?
A) Four mahogany
B) Two metal and two mahogany
C) Three metal and one mahogany
D) Four metal
  • 17. On what date was the state funeral held in Paris?
A) 4 July 1821
B) 15 December 1840
C) 15 December 1861
D) 6 May 1821
  • 18. Approximately how many people attended the state funeral in Paris?
A) 2,000,000 to 3,000,000
B) 700,000 to 1,000,000
C) 100,000 to 200,000
D) 50,000 to 70,000
  • 19. Where was the funeral procession's route directed in Paris?
A) St Jérôme's Chapel
B) Valley of Kings
C) Chapel of Les Invalides
D) Valley of the Geraniums
  • 20. Where was the coffin placed before Napoleon's final tomb was completed?
A) St Helena
B) Valley of the Geraniums
C) St Jérôme's Chapel
D) The crypt under the dome
  • 21. Who designed Napoleon's final tomb?
A) Horace Vernet
B) Louis Visconti
C) Louis Philippe I
D) Antommarchi
  • 22. During whose reign were Napoleon's remains entombed in a sarcophagus at Les Invalides?
A) Napoleon III
B) King George IV
C) Napoleon I
D) Louis Philippe I
  • 23. In what year were Napoleon's remains entombed in the crypt under the dome at Les Invalides?
A) 1840
B) 1830
C) 1861
D) 1821
  • 24. On what date did news of Napoleon's death reach England?
A) 15 December 1840
B) 15 December 1861
C) 6 May 1821
D) 4 July 1821
  • 25. How did the British press react to the news of Napoleon's death?
A) Universal mourning and grief
B) Complete indifference across all papers
C) Ranged from acknowledgement of greatness to war-mongering tyrant polemics
D) Uniform celebration and joy
  • 26. How was the reaction in France polarized?
A) Between public mourning and castigation by royalists and some liberals
B) Between total celebration and indifference
C) Between medical curiosity and denial
D) Between war and peace
  • 27. How many pamphlets appeared debating Napoleon's legacy between July and November 1821?
A) 700,000
B) 164
C) 5
D) 1840
  • 28. What did crowds in Paris gather to do after hearing the news?
A) Grief in absolute silence
B) Read newspaper reports and buy cheap engravings
C) Protest the monarchy
D) Burn down government buildings
  • 29. What made it difficult to assess the public response to Napoleon's death in France?
A) Strict censorship and laws forbidding public support
B) The remote location of Saint Helena
C) The complete absence of the French population
D) A lack of newspapers
  • 30. What false claims soon appeared in pamphlets regarding Napoleon's death?
A) That he had escaped to America
B) That he died of old age
C) That he had been poisoned
D) That he was never a general
  • 31. Until what decade did rumors persist that Napoleon was still alive?
A) The 1860s
B) The 1820s
C) The 1840s
D) The 1830s
  • 32. Which literary figure wrote reflections on Napoleon's death?
A) Thomas Shortt
B) Alessandro Manzoni
C) Louis Visconti
D) Antommarchi
  • 33. Which of the following authors wrote reflections on Napoleon's death?
A) Horace Vernet
B) Lord Byron
C) Thomas Reade
D) Walter Henry
  • 34. Who among these literary figures wrote about Napoleon's death?
A) Napoleon III
B) Louis Visconti
C) Louis Philippe I
D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 35. Which Austrian writer penned reflections on Napoleon's death?
A) Alessandro Manzoni
B) Lord Byron
C) Franz Grillparzer
D) Alexander Pushkin
  • 36. Which Russian literary figure wrote reflections on Napoleon's death?
A) Lord Byron
B) Franz Grillparzer
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Alexander Pushkin
  • 37. In what terms were paintings, lithographs, and engravings often depicting Napoleon's death?
A) Tragic terms as a murder
B) Medical terms as an autopsy
C) Political terms as a defeat
D) Quasi-religious terms as an apotheosis
  • 38. What is the title of Horace Vernet's 1821 painting depicting Napoleon's death?
A) Napoleon's Tomb
B) The Exile of St Helena
C) The Death of the Emperor
D) The Valley of the Geraniums
  • 39. What does Horace Vernet's painting depict Napoleon doing?
A) Ascending into an imperial Valhalla
B) Returning to France via ship
C) Lying in a coffin in Saint Helena
D) Signing his abdication papers
  • 40. In what year was Horace Vernet's Napoleon's Tomb first publicly exhibited?
A) 1830
B) 1840
C) 1821
D) 1861
  • 41. Who did Napoleon claim assassinated him in his wills?
A) Antommarchi
B) Archibald Arnott
C) The Bourbons
D) The English oligarchy
  • 42. Who did Napoleon predict would fall according to his wills?
A) France
B) His son
C) The English oligarchy
D) The Bourbons
  • 43. How many legatees did Napoleon leave his fortune to?
A) 1821
B) 51
C) 97
D) 3
  • 44. What high dose medication was administered to Napoleon on 4 May?
A) A dark fluid
B) Arsenic
C) Calomel
D) Morphine
  • 45. What chemical substance is calomel?
A) Sodium bicarbonate
B) Potassium cyanide
C) Lead acetate
D) Toxic mercury chloride
  • 46. Who was Napoleon's English physician who administered calomel?
A) Joséphine
B) Archibald Arnott
C) Antommarchi
D) The English oligarchy
  • 47. How old was Napoleon when he died?
A) 45
B) 51
C) 60
D) 97
  • 48. Which of the following was recorded as part of Napoleon's last words?
A) England
B) France
C) Seine
D) Calomel
  • 49. Which female name is mentioned in the recorded accounts of Napoleon's last words?
A) Marie
B) Joséphine
C) Elizabeth
D) Victoria
  • 50. Where did Napoleon die?
A) Waterloo, Belgium
B) Paris, France
C) Briars, Saint Helena
D) Longwood, Saint Helena
  • 51. Following which battle was Napoleon exiled?
A) Borodino
B) Trafalgar
C) Austerlitz
D) Waterloo
  • 52. How many followers accompanied Napoleon to Saint Helena in October 1815?
A) 40
B) 15
C) 2
D) 27
  • 53. What disease did Napoleon's physician Barry O'Meara diagnose in mid-1817?
A) Chronic hepatitis
B) Malaria
C) Stomach cancer
D) Tuberculosis
  • 54. When did the allies announce that Napoleon would remain a prisoner on Saint Helena for life?
A) October 1815
B) March 1817
C) July 1820
D) November 1818
  • 55. What theory regarding Napoleon's death has been rejected by numerous 21st-century scholarly studies and historians?
A) Stomach cancer
B) Deliberate arsenic poisoning
C) Accidental calomel poisoning
D) Perforated gastric ulcer
  • 56. What was the name of the ship that brought Napoleon to Saint Helena?
A) HMS Northumberland was not the ship
B) HMS Bellerophon
C) HMS Victory
D) HMS Northumberland
  • 57. What kind of building was Longwood House?
A) A brick mansion
B) A stone castle
C) A 40-room wooden bungalow
D) A canvas tent
  • 58. Which newspaper published articles insinuating the British government was trying to hasten Napoleon's death?
A) The Times
B) The Daily Mail
C) The Morning Chronicle
D) The Guardian
  • 59. Who was the governor of Saint Helena who cut Napoleon's expenditure?
A) Barry O'Meara
B) Henry Vassall-Fox
C) Hudson Lowe
D) François Carlo Antommarchi
  • 60. Who made a call for a public inquiry in the British Parliament in March 1817 regarding Napoleon's treatment?
A) Hudson Lowe
B) Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
C) Barry O'Meara
D) Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
  • 61. Which year was the study by an international team of eight gastrointestinal pathologists published?
A) 2007
B) 2021
C) 1823
D) 2009
  • 62. Whose 1823 report confirmed the gastric ulcer, noting it was aggravated by cancerous ulcerations?
A) Alain Golcher's
B) Walter Henry's
C) Antommarchi's
D) Jacques Macé's
  • 63. What did a 2007 study suggest was the cause of Napoleon's death?
A) Exsanguination from chronic microscopic bleeding
B) Pulmonary lesions linked to tuberculosis
C) A perforated ulcer without cancer
D) A haemorrhage associated with a gastric tumour
  • 64. Approximately how much weight did Napoleon lose in the last six months of his life according to clinical descriptions?
A) Around ten kilos
B) Around two kilos
C) Around twenty kilos
D) Around five kilos
  • 65. What bacteria did the 2007 study suggest probably caused the ulcer leading to stomach cancer?
A) Staphylococcus aureus
B) Tuberculosis bacilli
C) Helicobacter pylori
D) Escherichia coli
  • 66. Who studied the initial autopsy reports in 2012 and concluded the perforated gastric ulcer did not cause Napoleon's death?
A) Jacques Macé
B) Alain Golcher
C) Walter Henry
D) Thierry Lentz
  • 67. How did the 2021 international study describe Alain Golcher's thesis?
A) As entirely accurate and flawless
B) As a proven medical fact
C) As the most historically credible
D) On extremely shaky ground
  • 68. When was the paper reporting elevated levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair published?
A) 2003
B) 2008
C) 1961
D) 2021
  • 69. Who led the studies on Napoleon's hair from 2003 to 2006?
A) Arne Soerensen
B) Phillip Dwyer
C) Sten Forshufvud
D) Pascal Kintz
  • 70. What was Sten Forshufvud's profession?
A) Historian
B) Dentist
C) Toxicologist
D) Physician
  • 71. How did the 2008 INFN study describe the arsenic levels in Napoleon's hair compared to his youth?
A) Comparable
B) Non-existent
C) Significantly higher
D) Significantly lower
  • 72. Who called the arsenic poisoning thesis a conspiracy theory?
A) Phillip Dwyer
B) Pascal Kintz
C) Arne Soerensen
D) Sten Forshufvud
  • 73. Who suggested that Napoleon died of urinary and kidney problems in 2009?
A) Arne Soerensen
B) Sten Forshufvud
C) Golcher
D) Phillip Dwyer
  • 74. What was Arne Soerensen's profession?
A) Historian
B) Dentist
C) Physician
D) Nuclear physicist
  • 75. What condition was Napoleon already experiencing before the calomel was administered?
A) Feverish
B) Comatose
C) Tachycardic
D) Paralyzed
  • 76. How did the bicentenary of Napoleon's death in 2021 compare with the bicentenary of his birth in 1969?
A) It was identical in scale
B) It was boycotted entirely
C) It was much grander
D) It was low-key
  • 77. What factor restricted public events during the 2021 bicentenary?
A) The COVID-19 pandemic
B) Government bans on historical discussions
C) Severe weather conditions
D) A major economic depression
  • 78. Who delivered a speech on Napoleon's legacy at the Institut de France on 5 May 2021?
A) Thierry Lentz
B) Pierre Branda
C) Emmanuel Macron
D) Jean Tulard
  • 79. Which museum organized the exhibition Napoléon n’est plus?
A) Réunion des Musées Nationaux
B) The Louvre
C) Musée de l’Armée
D) Fondation Napoléon
  • 80. Where was the exhibition Napoléon aux 1001 visages held?
A) Château de Malmaison
B) Institut de France
C) Saint Helena
D) Les Invalides
  • 81. How many editions did Las Cases' Memorial de Sainte-Hélène go through by 1900?
A) 20
B) 16
C) 10
D) 12
  • 82. Who wrote the 1829 popular song "My God, isn't it true that he's not dead"?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Manzoni
C) Honoré de Balzac
D) Pierre-Jean de Béranger
  • 83. In which 1833 novel does a character believe Napoleon is still alive?
A) Il 5 maggio
B) The Country Doctor
C) Napoleon in Exile
D) Memorial de Sainte-Hélène
  • 84. Who wrote the novel The Country Doctor?
A) Manzoni
B) Alphonse de Lamartine
C) Honoré de Balzac
D) Pierre-Jean de Béranger
  • 85. Who created the documentary sketch "Sketch of Bonaparte as laid out on his Austerlitz camp-bed" in 1821?
A) Charles de Steuben
B) Vincenzo Vela
C) Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
D) Frederik Marryat
  • 86. Who painted the large-scale romanticized work La Mort de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène in 1828?
A) Frederik Marryat
B) Charles de Steuben
C) Vincenzo Vela
D) Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
  • 87. Who painted Napoleon on his Deathbed, One Hour Before Being Shrouded in 1843?
A) Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
B) Francis Burton
C) Frederik Marryat
D) Charles de Steuben
  • 88. Who sculpted Napoleon Dying on St Helena in 1866?
A) Francis Burton
B) Antommarchi
C) Vincenzo Vela
D) Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse
  • 89. Who made the original plaster or wax death mask of Napoleon?
A) Charles de Steuben
B) Francis Burton
C) Frederik Marryat
D) Antommarchi
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