GRADE 9 - FRENCH REVOLUTION

The Second Estate was composed of 

• Church leaders
• Nobility
• Peasants
• none of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

July 14, 1789, a French mob stormed a prison. This incident marked as the beginning of French Revolution is:

• Storming of the Bastille

• The Great Fear

• Storming of Pompei

• Sandstorm

The French Revolution was inspired by _______________ thinkers.

• Scientific Revolution

• Clergy

• Enlightenment

• Revolutionary

Which of the following wars helped to inspire the French Revolution?

• The American Civil War

• The French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• The Seven Years War

Nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people. These lands were in turn given to the peasants. This pyramid system is called:

• National Assembly

• The Estates

• New Regime

• Feudalism

Monarch of France during the 1780s

• Louis XIV

• Louis XV

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIII

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution

• maintaining an extravagant court at the immense palace of Versailles

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

• all of the above

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

• unequal tax burdens
• equal land ownership
• a law granting peasants more freedom 
• a growing French empire

When the Third Estate was walked out the Session of Estates General, they pledged never to disband until a new constitution was created. This event is known as:

• Women's March on Versailles

• Reign of Terror

• The Great Fear

• Tennis Court Oath