The French Revolution

Who was the king France at the time of the French Revolution?

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Louis XVI

• Louis XIV

• Nicholas I

Who was the wife of Louis XVI?

• Helena Bonham Carter

• Anne-Marie

• Elizabeth Olsen

• Marie Antoinette

What was livre?

• A unit of currency in France

• A tax lieved by the church

• A group of privileged people

• A tax to be paid directly to the state

What was taille known as?

• Indirect tax

• Direct tax

• Agricultural produce

• Extreme poverty

Who constituted the third estate?

• Philosophers and authors

• Clergy and nobility

• Peasants and artisans

• Illiterate men and women

Who is the author of "Two Treatises of the Government"?

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Mirabeau

• John Locke

Whose name is associated with the pamphlet called 'What is the Third Estate'?

• Maximilian Robespierre

• Abbé Sieyès

• Montesquieu

• Mirabeau

When was the Bastille destroyed?

• 14 July 1789

• 14 July 1989

• 20 June 1789

• 5 August 1989

Who were 'active citizens'?

• Citizens entitled to protest

• Citizens entitled to vote

• Citizens entitled to accumulate wealth

• Citizens entitled to be free

What did Bastille symbolise as?

• Military strength of France

• Humanity

• Despotic power of the king

• Cowardice act of the king