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WorksheetsFrench Revolution
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Estate
Which of the following made up 1% of the French population, and included clergy?
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Middle Class
Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution?
Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes.
Only about 2 percent of the nobility paid any taxes.
The nobility paid taxes only on land, not on income.
The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes.
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the French Revolution?
An unfair tax system among the Estates
Government debt from wars
An increase in the cost of living
Frequent attacks from the British
What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
Robespierre was executed by the guillotine.
French women marched all the way to Versailles.
A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.
All of the above are true.
What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
Robespierre was executed by the guillotine.
French women marched all the way to Versailles.
A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.
All of the above are true.
Which group imposed the Reign of Terror?
The Second Coalition
The Committee of Public Safety
The National Assembly
The King's Swiss guard
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
army general
King of France
priest
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety
The Reign of Terror ended with the beheading of which well-known revolutionary?
Napoleon Bonaparte
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Maximilien Robespierre
What was Napoleon Bonaparte able to accomplish during peacetime?
He set up government-run public schools.
He set up a comprehensive system of laws.
He established a fairer tax code.
All of the above are true.
What is nationalism?
Unjust use of power
A government consisting of delegates from the Third Estate
A five-person council set up to run the government
Pride in one's country based on shared customs and common history
Napoleon Bonaparte was unable to conquer which two European countries during the Napoleonic Wars?
Scotland and England
Great Britain and Germany
Great Britain and Russia
Russia and Germany
While Napoleon was in exile and organizing an attack against the British, they captured him and exiled him to ___.
Elba
St. Simons
St. Helena
Russia
