French Revolution

Why, mes amis, is France drowning in debt?

• money spent on the American Revolution

• Marie Antoinette's lavish spending

• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes

• all of the above

Ah, mes amis! In the grand society of France, who among us belongs to the esteemed First Estate?

• the Clergy

• people with special privileges

• people who did not pay taxes

• all of the abve

Ah, mon ami, imagine yourself in the grand halls of Versailles! Tell me, who among these esteemed groups made up the Second Estate?

• Church leaders

• Nobility

• Peasants

• none of the above

Ah, mon ami, in the grand nation of France, to which estate do most of the people belong?

• 1st
  Estate

• 2nd Estate

• 3rd Estate

• 4th Estate

When the citizens of Paris heard that the military was marching to crush their uprising, what was their bold response, as if led by Napoleon himself?

• leave the city

• storm the Bastille

• force the King to come to Paris

• none of the above

In 1789, ze famished women of Paris, like a storm, marched to Versailles and 

• forced the King to return to Paris

• demanded that the King abdicate

• demanded that the King leave France

• all of the above

What day shall be forever remembered as the storming of the Bastille, the spark that ignited the flames of revolution in France?

• June 17, 1789

• May 5, 1789

• August 4, 1789

• July 14, 1789

What was the significance of the Storming of the Bastille, mon ami?

• Bastille was symbol to the people of France representing years of kindness by the monarchy

• it represented a challenge to the Old Regime

• the event was ignored by most of the French and proved the revolution was unpopular

• most French today argue that the Storming of the Bastille was not important

Ah, mon ami, imagine a society where reason, not tradition, leads the way to glory and revolution! From where does this grand idea originate?

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Enlightenment

• all of the above

What is the significance of the Tennis Court Oath, mon ami?

• it led to a new constitution for France

• it started the French Revolution

• it was the beginning of the Reign of Terror

• it marked the beginning of the rule of Napoleon