French Revolution Quiz

Who said: The task of representing the people has been given to the rich?

• Mirabeau

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Rousseau

• Georges Denton

Who wrote an influential pamphlet What is the third Estate’?

• Mirabeau

• Abbe Sieyes

• Jean-Paul Marat

• Olympe de Gouges.

Which group of people did not join the Jacobin club?

• Artisans

• Shopkeepers

• Daily-wage workers

• Men with property

French women demanded the right:

• to vote

• to be elected to the assembly

• to hold political office

• all of the above

A triangular slave trade took place between Europe, the Americas and:

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

• none of the above

Who were considered as ‘passive citizens’?

• Women

• children

• Non-propertied men

• wealthy people

Which of the following statements is untrue about the Third Estate

• The Third Estate was made of the poor only

• Within the Third Estate some were rich and some were poor

• Richer members of the Third Estate owned lands

• Peasants were obliged to serve in the army, or build roads

Which of these rights were not established as ‘natural and inalienable’ rights by the constitution of 1791?

• Right to life

• Freedom of speech and opinion

• Equality before the law

• All the above

The winged woman stands for

• Right to life

• national colours of France.

• personification of the law

• the law is the same for all and all are equal before it

Which of these provisions were passed by the Assembly on the night of 4 August, 1789?

• Abolition of feudal system of obligations

• Clergy had to give up its privileges

• Tithes were abolished

• All the above