French Revolution

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The National Assembly framed a Constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the

• monarch

• wealthy man

• businessmen

• press

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Who wrote an influential pamphlet What is the third Estate?

• Mirabeau

• Abbe Sieyes

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Olympe de Gouges

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The Third Estate comprised

• Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers

• Peasants and artisan

• Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc

• All the above

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When did Louis XVI became king of France?

• 1789

• 1775

• 1798

• 1774

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When was livre discontinued?

• 1789

• 1774

• 1790

• 1794

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An extreme situation where the basic means of livelihood are endangered

• The old regime

• Subsistence crisis

• Clergy

• Chateaux

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When did Louis XVI called an assembly of the estate general

• 1614

• 1735

• 1789

• 1778

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When did the third assembly keep a meeting and where?

• 20 June, indoor tennis court

• 21 June, indoor tennis court

• 20 June, Paris badminton court

• none of the above

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When did the agitated crowd destroyed the Bastille?

• 15 july

• 14 july

• 16 july

• 30 july

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When did France become a republic?

• Sep, 1792

• Oct, 1791

• Sep, 1791

• Oct, 1792

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When did the national assembly complete the draft constitution?

• 1790

• 1788

• 1791

• 1774

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1) Louis 16th called for a meeting of delegates called

• The Meeting of Versailles

• National Convention

• Committee of Public Safety

• Estates General

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2) In October of 1789, thousands of women marched to the King’s palace demanding

• Money

• Lower prices for bread

• Cows and chickens

• Cute husbands

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3) The members of the 2nd Estate?

• the middle class and the peasants

• the Catholic clergy

• the nobility

• the Bastilles

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4) The rich palace where King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived outside of Paris

• Bastille

• Versailles

• National Assembly

• The Grand Estate

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9)The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution

• The Bastille

• The Tennis Court

• Versailles Palace

• Paris

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The book 'The Spirit of the Laws' was written by

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• None of the above

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The members of the first estate were called

• Nobility

• Big businessmen

• Clergy

• big merchants

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National Anthem of France

• Vande Matram

• Roget de L' Isle

• Marseillaise

• Le Moniteur Universel