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French Revolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are estates?

a)

It was a social class of France that included three estates; 1st Clergy, 2nd Nobles, 3rd Everybody else

b)

It was a welfare system

c)

It was a three system of Church hierarchy.

d)

It was a system of the poorest class in France.

2.

What was the ancien regime?

a)

Another term for the Monarchy

b)

Another term for the Nobility

c)

Another term for old order

d)

Another term for social class

3.

What is bourgeoisie?

a)

Another term for middle class

b)

Another term for self-centered

c)

power to the people

d)

Another term for wealthy

4.

What is deficit spending?

a)

When a country's power is based on its trade.

b)

When a country spends more money than it takes in.

c)

the Gross Domestic Product of a country

d)

neither a, b, c

5.

What was the Estates-General?

a)

the legislative body consisting of representatives of the three estates, before making any changes.

b)

the judicial branch of the French Government

c)

the executive brance of the French government

d)

the voice of the people of France during the French Revolution.

6.

What were cashiers?

a)

Places were people gathered for intellectual conservation.

b)

An exchange of currency.

c)

A list of people who were enemies of the Revolution

d)

Another term for notebooks listing grievances.

7.

What was the Bastille?

a)

A grim medieval fortress used as a prison for political and other prisoners.

b)

A government building

c)

Marie Antoinette's Manson.

d)

A housing complex for French soldiers.

8.

What are factions?

a)

Social groups

b)

An elite group of the military

c)

dissenting groups of people who competed to gain power.

d)

neither a, b, or c

9.

The aristocratic "hero of two worlds" who fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution

a)

Baron de Montesquieu

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

d)

Marquis de Lafayette

10.

She was an Austrian born queen married to Louis XVI, she lived a life of great pleasure and extravagance.

a)

Queen Elizabeth

b)

Catherine the Great

c)

Marie Antoinette

d)

Malinche

11.

Nobles, clergy, and others who fled France and its revolutionary forces

a)

Loyalist

b)

Patriots

c)

'émigré's

d)

traitors

12.

Working class men and women who pushed the revolution into more radical action.

a)

the Third Estate

b)

the sans-culottes

c)

the bourgeoisie

d)

the émigrés

13.

Mostly middle-class lawyers or intellectuals.

a)

Jacobins

b)

ancien regime

c)

cahiers

d)

Bastille

14.

An agreement by which someone gives up their freedom for an organized society.

a)

natural rights

b)

natural law

c)

social contract

d)

salons

15.

All power comes from the people

a)

the Bill of Rights

b)

The Declaration of the Rights of Man

c)

A Federal Republic

d)

Popular Sovereignty