Age of Revolutions

What day marks the official beginning of the French Revolution?

• June 17, 1789
• May 5, 1789
• August 4, 1789
• July 14, 1789

What was the name of the organization that led the National Convention that Robespierre later controlled?

• Committee of Foreign Affairs
• Committee of Armed Services
• Committee of Public Safety
• Committee of Domestic Affairs

How many times was Napoleon Bonaparte exiled before his death in 1821?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Who led a successful coup d'etat to seize control of the French government in 1799, ending the French Revolution?

• Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre
• Jean Paul Marat
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Georgen Danton

The First Estate was made up of this group.

• clergy

• common people
• nobles
• kings and queens

The Second Estate was made up of the these people.

• clergy

• common people

• priests

• nobles

What do these pie charts reveal about the causes of the French Revolution?

• all the estates were taxed equally

• the upper classes paid the most taxes

• the poorest classes paid all the taxes

• the third estate was the wealthiest

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Which of the following was an underlying, or deep-­rooted, cause of the French Revolution? 

• unequal tax burdens
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

What was the result of King Louis XVI's trial for treason in front of the National Convention?

• Innocent and Exiled
• Guilty and Hung
• Innocent and restored as King
• Guilty and Executed with the Guillotine

This device was used to execute thousands of people during the period known as the Reign of Terror.

• guillotine
• astrolabe
• gallows
• Bastille