French Revolution Quiz Review

One important result of the French Revolution was that?

• France enjoyed a lengthy period of peace and prosperity

• The church was restored to its former role and power in the French government

• Political power shifted to the Middle Class

• France lost its spirit of nationalism

Who were the Jacobins?

• A radical political party that guided the revolution (especially during the reign of terror) and wanted a Republic

• A moderate political party that represented the interests of the people in the countryside

• A conservative political party that represented the interests of the monarchy

• A socialist political party that supported a British takeover of France.

 During the Reign of Terror, Robespierre tried to

• execute all French nobles.

• restore the Catholic Church.

• crush all opposition to the revolution.

• reinstate the monarchy.

What was the slogan of the French Revolution?

• Liberty, Equality, Property

• To Infinity and Beyond!

• Liberty, Life, Property

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

The sans-culottes played a major role in the revolution, who were they?

• Peasants

• radicals during the revolution, mostly from the urban working class

• The nobility

• A very tasty style of French Bread

In 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were

• Returned to the throne

• Exiled to England

• Saved from a mob by Marquis de Lafayette

• Executed

In 1792, the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy and declare France

• dissolved

• limited monarchy

• a republic

• bankrupt

The Civil Constitution of the Clergy

• put the French Catholic Church under state control.

• abolished the Catholic Church in France.

• made Catholicism the official religion of France.

• made the clergy part of the Third Estate.

  (a)   was the main leader of the Reign of Terror.

The Constitution of 1795 established the 5 man Directory, what was one problem with the Directory that led to its downfall?

• They re-instituted the Reign of Terror

• They weren’t educated

• They tried to restore the monarchy

• They were weak and corrupt