Unit 10: Revolutions Exam ADAPTED Spring 2025

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Which thinker said the government's job is to protect people's natural rights of life, liberty and property?

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

When one person has complete and total power over a country, that person is called what?

• a president
• an absolute monarch
• an oligarch

The French Revolution began in what year?

• 1776
• 1800
• 1789

The First Estate of France before the French Revolution was made up of:

• Nobles
• Clergy
• Peasant Farmers

Who wrote the American Declaration of Independence and later inspired some of the ideas that led to the French Revolution?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

The motto of the French Revolution was:

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
• Life, Liberty and Property
• Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Napoleon lived out the last six years of his life on the rocky island of _____________.

• Elba
• Corsica
• St. Helena

Often considered Napoleon's greatest achievement off the battlefield, Napoleon's written list of French laws was called:

• The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• The Napoleonic Code
• The Declaration of Independence

In 1789, the Third Estate split away from the other two 'estates' and promised to write a new constitution for France during the...

• Tennis Court Oath
• Estates General
• Coup d'etat