Ch.4 Entry Test The French Revolution and Napoleon

How was French society divided before the French Revolution?

• Into nobles and commoners

• into three estates

• into fiefdoms

• into two groups: free people and slaves

What movement influenced both the bourgeoisie and the nobles before the French Revolution?

• Rationalism

• Enlightenment

• Scholasticism

• British Empiricsm

In addition to the monarchy, what other political institution existed in pre-Revolutionary France?

• a weak Parliament

• a cabinet of ministers with a Prime Minister

• a religious oligarchy

• a strong Parliament

After being locked out of their meeting place by anti-revolutionaries, the revolutionary group known as the National Assembly, met to write

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citzen

• the Constitution of 1795

• the French Bill of Rights

• the Tennis Court Oath

Two basic liberties included in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were

• freedom of speech and freedom of the press

• equal rights for women and freedom for slaves

• privacy and exemption from taxation

• privileges for the nobles and lands granted to the clergy

What philosophical movement influenced the writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• The Enlightenment

• The Scholasticism

• Rationalism

• The Reformation

During the French Revolution, who ordered the execution of King Louis XVI?

• The Estates-General

• The National Assembly

• The French Senate

• Robespierre

How was King Louis XVI executed?

• firing squad

• guillotine

• gallows

• burning at the stake

What was the Reign of Terror?

• King Louis XVI's reign

• Reformations made to the Church during the French Revolution

• A set of harsh policies put in place to persecute counterrevolutionaries

• Napoleon Bonaparte's reign

Violence during the Reign of Terror was primarily directed towards

• the French

• the British

• the Americans

• the Germans