World Studies (5th Edition) Chapter 11 Review

Members of the First Estate were peasants and farmers.

• True

• False

The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a document demanding the end of many of the abuses suffered by the French people.

• True

• False

The Third Estate formed the National Assembly.

• True

• False

List one reason that the French Revolution occurred.

• Social discrimination

• economic collapse

• political incompetence

• All of those are reasons

What was the only political body in France with the authority to reform the nation’s tax system?

• Estates-General
• Council of State
• National Assembly
• Chamber of Deputies

Name the period of mass execution that occurred during the French Revolution.

• Age of Enlightenment
• Napoleonic Wars
• Industrial Revolution
• Reign of Terror

Name all of the Enlightenment thinkers (mentioned in the chapter) who sowed the seeds of revolution. [select all that apply]

• Thomas Hobbes
• Immanuel Kant
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

French aristocrats and nobles were members of the ___.

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

Why was France unable to build a stable society based on Enlightenment ideals during the revolution?

• The French did not understand what the Enlightenment philosophers were teaching.

• France was not trying to build a stable society.

• It ignored the fact that all people are born with a sin nature.

• The French were too compassionate toward those who opposed them.

Why did the French turn from loving Louis XVI to hating him?

• He led France to war

• He supported the Third Estate.

• He was ineffective and spent lavishly.

• He married Marie Antoinette.