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French Revolution & Reign of Terror

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the idea that God had chosen a ruler?

a)

Divine inheritance

b)

'Cause for

c)

Divine right

d)

Divine privilege

2.

What Enlightenment thinker thought people were primitive and needed government for protection?

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Voltaire

3.

What was the weapon that was associated with the fear that spread during the Reign of Terror?

a)

Flamethrower

b)

Spear

c)

Guillotine

d)

Gallows

4.

Which of these documents was influenced by Enlightenment Philosophers?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Heliocentric Universe

e)

US Constitution

5.

Which of these was a cause of the French Revolution?

a)

Napoleon's coronation

b)

The Reign of Terror

c)

Haitian Revolution

d)

Storming of the Bastille

6.

Which of these were results of the French Revolution?

a)

the economy recovered

b)

Napoleon gained power

c)

Louis XVI was executed

d)

France was stable

7.

Thousands of people were accused of disloyalty to the revolution and guillotined for their crimes during...

a)

the Reign of Napoleon

b)

the Reign of Louis XVI

c)

the Reign of Benevolence

d)

the Reign of Terror

8.

Which of these was an early event of the French Revolution?

a)

France supported the American Revolution

b)

France wrote a New Constitution

c)

the Tennis Court Oath

d)

Louis XIV got executed

9.

The 3rd Estate's frustration with the inaction of the Estates General led them to...

(a)  

10.

Which of these was the root cause of the French Revolution?

a)

too many nobles

b)

lack of religious freedom

c)

a strong monarch

d)

a bad harvest