French Revolution Practice

About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?

• 7

• 15

• 25

• 97

What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?

• Robespierre was executed by guillotine

• French women marched all the way to Versailles

• A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder

• All of the above are true.

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

• No one

• The nobility

• Known revolutionaries

• Only Maximilien Robespierre

Which group most strongly embraced the ideals and principles of the Enlightenment?

• The nobility

• The bourgeoisie

• The peasant class

• The clergy

Why was the Third Estate angry with the monarchy and the first two estates?

• They were starving

• They paid more taxes than everyone else

• They had no say in the government

• All of the above.

The French Revolution was a movement responsible for taking France out of a ...

• Republic

• Empire

• Democracy

• Absolutist monarchy.

Which group did break away from the Estates-General declaring they were then the National Assembly?

• nobility

• clergy

• the king

• commoners

Who made up the Second Estate?

• Clergy
• Nobility
• Peasants
• Bourgeoisie

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

• Abolished slavery in the French colonies
• Was historic because it applied to women and men
• Stated that all men are born equal and remain equal under the law
• Was turned down by the National Assembly

This machine was used to execute people by beheading them. It was called a _________________.

• Ovaltine

• Guillotine

• None of the above