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French Revolution

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Social class in France made up of peasants, artisans, and the middle class

a)

1st Estate

b)

2nd Estate

c)

3rd Estate

2.

Name one reason for France’s financial crisis in 1789?

a)

National Debt

b)

No Taxes

c)

Continental System

3.

Name one moderate reform made by the National Assembly between 1789-1791

a)

Ended Privileges

b)

Guillotine

c)

Lasting Peace

d)

Reinstated the King

4.

Radicals who saw themselves as the defender of the revolution and as the voice of the

a)

Robespierre

b)

Jacobins

c)

Girondins

5.

Leader of the Jacobins who headed the Committee of Public Safety

a)

Jacobins

b)

Louis XVI

c)

Robespierre

d)

Louis XVIII

6.

Name one effect of the French Revolution on France

a)

Nationalism Spreads

b)

Civil war

c)

Better food

7.

What accounted for the high mortality rate of the French Army in Russia?

a)

winter

b)

Russia had more soldiers

c)

soldiers died from fighting in the heat

8.

All are ways in which Napoleon changed the world except:

a)

Napoleonic Code

b)

Invasion of Spain

c)

Louisiana Purchase

d)

Lasting Peace

9.

This Admiral led the British navy to victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar

a)

Horatio Nelson

b)

Marie Antoinette

c)

King Louis XVI

d)

Wellington

10.

She was the Queen of France when the French Revolution took place

a)

Elizabeth

b)

Marie Antoinette

c)

Anne

d)

Joan

11.

Social class in France made up of the nobility

a)

2nd Estate

b)

1st Estate

c)

3rd Estate

12.

Term for the French middle class

a)

1st Estate

b)

Bourgeoisie

c)

proletariat

13.

He would take over the Directory in 1799 and eventually name himself Emperor of France

a)

Louis XVI

b)

Louis XVIII

c)

Napoleon

d)

Wellington

14.

A meeting of delegates representing each social class

a)

Legislative Assembly

b)

Estates General

c)

Émigrés

d)

Sans-Culottes

15.

Meaning “without breeches,” these working class man or woman made the French Revolution possible

a)

Sans-Culottes

b)

Bourgeoisie

c)

Émigrés

16.

A person who flees his or her country for political reasons

a)

Sans-Culottes

b)

Estates General

c)

Émigrés

d)

Guillotine

17.

Device used during the Reign of Terror to execute thousands by beheading

a)

Guillotine

b)

Hanging

c)

Firing squad

d)

Gas chamber

18.

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country is nationalism: True or false

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The National Assembly took this oath, promising not to disband until they had written a constitution

a)

The Vienna Oath

b)

The French Revolution Oath

c)

Ping Pong Court Oath

d)

Tennis Court Oath

20.

Moderates who felt the revolution had gone far enough and wanted to protect the middle class

a)

Jacobins

b)

Girondins

c)

sans-culottes

d)

2nd Estate

21.

A sudden overthrow of the government

a)

Revolution

b)

coup d'etat

c)

tithe

d)

guillotine

22.

Period from September 1793 to July 1794 when people in France were arrested and executed for not

supporting the revolution

a)

Reign of Terror

b)

September Massacres

c)

Great Fear

d)

Grand Pear

23.

Where Napoleon was defeated for good in Belgium by the Duke of Wellington

a)

Elba

b)

Paris

c)

Moscow

d)

Waterloo

24.

The National Assembly composed this document in August 1789 and is the French Constitution today

a)

Declaration of Independence France

b)

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

c)

Common Sense

d)

Constitution of France

25.

What marked the end of the Reign of Terror?

a)

Execution of Robespierre

b)

Execution of Louis XVI

c)

Napoleon overthrowing the Directory

d)

Founding of the Committee of Public Safety

26.

He was the absolute monarch of France at the start of the French Revolution

a)

Louis XVI

b)

Louis XVIII

c)

Napoleon

27.

Military tactic in which soldiers destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy was the Destroy Earth Policy: True or False

a)

True

b)

False

28.

A huge mob stormed this French prison to steal weapons needed to defend the Assembly

a)

Bastille

b)

Fresnes

c)

Bagne of Toulon

d)

La Santé