CHAPTER 9 Quiz/Test: French Revolution

The Social Class made up of French clergy

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

• Taille

• First Estate

The French Middle Class

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

• First Estate

• National Assembly

A land tax that hurt the Peasants most

• Taille

• Bourgeoisie

• Quartering Act

• Land Act of 1789

The French parliament

• Estates-General

• National Assembly

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

Name taken by the Third Estate with with the promise to draft a new constitution

• National Assembly

• Bourgeoisie

• Estates-General

• Proletariat

Which of the following caused social unrest in France?

• The nobility still treated peasants in a manner similar to medieval serfdom.

• The Estates-General made most of the important decisions for France.

• The French court spent so much money that people didn't not respect the King

• The peasants owned more land than the nobility.

Many aristocrats and members of the Bourgeoisie were attracted to __________, some of which criticized France's absolutist system.

• The Tennis Court Oath

• Enlightenment philosophies

• The ideas of the National Assembly

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

One economic cause of the French Revolution was an increase in prices, which

• Channeled more money to merchants and salesmen

• Depleted the governments monetary reserves.

• Led to an equivalent increase in wages among the nobility

• Left people unable to purchase essential goods, such as food.

why did the peasants' fear of foreign invasion help bring down the French government?

• The peasants feared foreign troops would support the monarchy.

• Foreign troops wanted to take over lands currently farmed by French peasants.

• The National Assembly wanted to have France ruled by foreign powers.

• The French monarchy was opposed to foreign troops taking over any part of France.

What was the act of the Peasants the signaled the start of the French Revolution?

• The removal of King Louis XIV

• The creation of the National Assembly

• The writing of a new French Constitution

• The storming and destruction of the Bastille