Unit 2 Pre-Quiz - The Age of Revolutions

What was the name of the device that was used to behead Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI?

• Electric Chair
• Guillotine
• Gun
• Axe

Which is the 3rd Estate?

• Bourguoisie/Commoner
• Clergy
• Nobles

Which is the first estate?

• Bourguoisie
• Clergy
• Nobles

What did Napoleon crown himself?

• Emperor
• King
• President
• Dictator

What did the Jacobins believe?

• That the Revolution had gone far enough(there were okay with a Constitutional Monarchy)
• That the revolution needed to continue (they wanted to get rid of the king completely)

 How could the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI best be described? 

• democracy
• constitutional government
• limited government
• unlimited government

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

• unequal tax on the 3rd Estate
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen stated the powers of government came from the people, not the king. What Enlightenment thinker also shared this idea?

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Locke 

Which French Revolutionairy leader was responsible for the "Reign of Terror?"

• Maximilien Robespierre
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Marie Antoinette
• Napoleon Bonaparte

What was the name of the French Prison that was stormed during the Revolution?

• Versaille 
• Bastille