French Revolution Quiz

Match the term "Robespierre" to the correct description.

• main leader of the Reign of Terror

• executed for demanding equal rights for French women

• the right to vote

• French middle class

• notebooks listing grievances by the three estates

Match the term "Napoleonic Code" to the correct description.

• French middle class

• notebooks listing grievances by the three estates

• the right to vote

• group of laws that reflected Enlightenment principles

• executed for demanding equal rights for French women

Match the term "Marquis de Lafayette" to the correct description.

• sans-culotte

• executed for demanding equal rights for French women

• French middle class

• head of the French National Guard who fought with George Washington

• the right to vote

Match the term "cahier" to the correct description.

• French middle class

• executed for demanding equal rights for French women

• working-class revolutionaries

• the right to vote

• notebooks listing grievances by the three estates

Match the term "abdicate" to the correct description.

• suffrage

• the right to vote

• when a king or queen gives up their throne

• French middle class

• notebooks listing grievances by the three estates

In France’s old order, the clergy belonged to the:

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

In France’s old order, which of the following groups were members of the bourgeoisie?

• nobles

• clergy

• peasants

• merchants

The poorest members of the Third Estate were:

• urban workers

• bourgeois families

• nuns and priests

• philosophes

Louis XVI fired his financial advisor, Jacques Necker, when Necker suggested:

• reimposing manor dues

• reducing court spending

• abolishing tariffs on internal trade

• taxing the First and Second estates

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was modeled on the

• United States Constitution.

• British Magna Carta.

• United States Bill of Rights.

• US Declaration of Independence.