France's Old Regime, Economic Crisis, and Estates-General Quiz

Which estate did the nobility belong to?

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate

• Fourth Estate

What economic practice is described as spending more money than is made?

• Surplus spending

• Balanced budgeting

• Deficit spending

• Investment spending

What was one of the causes of rising food prices in the late 1780s?

• Economic boom

• Good harvests

• Bad harvests

• Technological advancements

What was the estates-general?

• A military alliance

• A meeting of all three estates

• A financial institution

• A royal decree

What were the cahiers prepared for the estates-general?

• Military strategies

• Notebooks of grievances

• Royal decrees

• Economic plans

Which group was primarily involved in the Tennis Court Oath?

• The clergy

• The nobility

• The third estate

• The royal family

What did the grievances in the cahiers often include?

• Demands for more colonies

• Calls for fairer taxes and freedom of the press

• Requests for more royal palaces

• Proposals for new trade routes

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

The clergy were part of the:

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate

France was deep in debt because of

• money spent on foreign wars and the American Revolution

• the king and queens lavish spending

• the 1st and 2nd estates not paying taxes

• all of the above