The French Revolution

The 1st Estate was comprised of the _________.

• commoners

• clergy

• nobility

• none of the above

The 2nd Estate was comprised of the _________.

• nobility

• commoners

• clergy

• all of the above

The 3rd was comprised of the _________.

• nobility

• commoners

• clergy

• court of Versailles

In France during the 18th century, the ________ detested the inherited privileges of the king and nobility.

• peasants

• bourgeoise

• nobility

• clergy

Under the reign of Louis XVI, the common people of France were crushed by ________ , as opposed to the nobility, who were lavishly entertained at Versailles as guests of the king.

• famine

• war

• taxes

• all of the above

Assembly that launched the French Revolution, which agreed on the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen,” forcing the king to sign the assembly’s constitution.

• Estates General

• National Assembly

• French Parliament

• All of the above

“Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" and are owed “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression,” is a line from the _________________.

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Declaration of the Rights of Woman

• French Bill of Rights

French ________ took matters into their own hands, burning the manorial rolls that listed their feudal obligations, and sometimes burning the estates themselves to the ground.

• farmers

• merchants

• soldiers

• nobles

In the summer of 1791, Louis ________ tried to escape from France, hoping to rally support from other European monarchs. He was captured and made a prisoner in his palace.

• XIV

• XV

• XVI

• XVIII

Under the ________, the radical republican faction led by Robespierre, the French Revolution passed through its most idealistic and most violent phase.

• Jacobins

• Girondins

• Republicans

• All of the above