Age of Revolutions Quiz

During the 1600s and the 1700s, kings ruled with no restrictions on their power. What is this called?

• Permanent Rule

• Absolute Rule

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

How are the Renaissance and the Enlightenment similar?

• changed the way people thought about the world

• limited technological advancements

• encouraged traditional values

• ignored individual achievements

Which previous time period gave many Enlightenment thinkers their ideas about studying the world around them?

• Renaissance

• Feudalism

• Reformation

• Roman Classicalism

Who was the king of France during the French Revolution?

• Louis XVI
• Peter the Great
• Robespierre
• Marquis de Lafayette

Label the French Estates correctly (number on left, group on right)

f

e

d

c

b

a

1st

Nobility

Everyone Else

3rd

2nd

Clergy

What was the Divine Right of Kings?

• right to not pay taxes
• God given right to rule
• predetermined rise to power
• enlightenment of kings

Only this group paid taxes in pre-revolutionary France.

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 1st and 3rd Estates

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

• dissolved.

• bankrupt.

• a nation.

• a republic.

In 1793 King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were

• saved from the Robespierre.

• executed.

• deported to England.

• returned to the throne.