French Revolution Check for Understanding

Which Enlightenment thinker would support an overthrow of a government, if that government does NOT support natural rights?

• Montesquieu
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Ricardo Montaban

One cause of the French Revolution was the estate system. Which estate represented the largest percentage of France's population?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Monarchy

What would Montesquieu say is the solution to the problem of the abuse of power by absolute monarchs?

• overthrow the government
• separation of powers
• A strong leader who only has to answer to himself
• Have no government at all

What cause directly impacted the peasantry the most pre French Revolution?

• food shortages
• representation in Estates General
• ability of King to issue blank arrest warrants
• targeted by the guillotine

Match the following groups of people to their Estate in Pre Revolutionary France

• Third Estate

• Commoners

• Second Estate

• Clergy

• First Estate

• Nobility