Political Crisis and National Assembly Quiz

What term is used to describe dissenting groups of people?

• factions

• militia

• revolutionaries

• citizens

Who was the leader of the National Guard, a largely middle-class militia, and fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution?

• Olympe de Gouges

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Marie Antoinette

• Louis XVI

Which journalist believed that the Declaration of the Rights of Man should grant equal citizenship to women?

• Marie Antoinette

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Olympe de Gouges

• George Washington

Who was the Austrian-born queen of France and wife of Louis XVI?

• Olympe de Gouges

• Marie Antoinette

• Marquis de Lafayette

• George Washington

What term describes a person who flees his or her country for political reasons?

• sans-culottes

• émigré

• republic

• Jacobin

Who were the working-class men and women who made the French Revolution more radical?

• émigré

• republic

• sans-culottes

• Jacobin

What is a system of government in which officials are chosen by the people called?

• émigré

• sans-culottes

• republic

• Jacobin

Who were the members of a revolutionary political club made during the French Revolution?

• émigré

• sans-culottes

• republic

• Jacobin

What did the members of the National Assembly vote to end after the storming of the Bastille?

• Their own privileges

• The monarchy

• The feudal system

• The church's power

What rights did the National Assembly aim to provide to all male citizens?

• Equal rights before the law

• Voting rights

• Property rights

• Freedom of speech