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Enlightenment/French Revolution Part 4

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following made up 1% of the French population, and included clergy?

a)

First Estate

b)

Second Estate

c)

Third Estate

d)

Middle Class

2.

Which of the following made up 2% of the French population, and included nobles?

a)

First Estate

b)

Second Estate

c)

Third Estate

d)

Peasants

3.

The ___ made up roughly 97% of the French population.

a)

First Estate

b)

Second Estate

c)

Third Estate

d)

Church officials

4.

Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution?

a)

Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes.

b)

Only about 2 percent of the nobility paid any taxes.

c)

The nobility paid taxes only on land, not on income.

d)

The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes.

5.

What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?

a)

Robespierre was executed by the guillotine.

b)

French women marched all the way to Versailles.

c)

A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder.

d)

All of the above are true.

6.

The Reign of Terror ended with the beheading of which well-known revolutionary?

a)

Napoleon Bonaparte

b)

King Louis XVI

c)

Marie Antoinette

d)

Maximilien Robespierre

7.
What was the final outcome of the French Revolution? 
a)
the declaration of the Edict of Nantes
b)
Napoleon naming himself Emperor of France
c)
unification of French city­ states
d)
the restoration of Louis XVI 
8.

Which Enlightenment Philosopher supported the idea of the "Consent of the Governed"

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Locke

c)

Voltaire

d)

Hobbes

9.

Which Enlightenment Philosopher supported absolute power?

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire

c)

Locke

d)

Hobbes

10.

Which Enlightenment Philosopher believed in the separation of powers?

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire

c)

Locke

d)

Hobbes

11.

A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason as the method to solve political and social problems.

a)

Scientific Revolution

b)

French Revolution

c)

Enlightenment

d)

Industrial Revolution

12.

The legislative body consisting of representatives from all three Estates.

a)

Estates General

b)

Estates System

c)

2nd Estate

d)

3rd Estate

13.

Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.

a)

King Louis XVI

b)

King Louis XIV

c)

Marie Antoinnette

d)

Robespierre

14.

The document that increased the rights of all French citizens

a)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Tennis Court Oath

d)

Constitution

15.

The political prison, symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution

a)

The Bastille

b)

The Tennis Court

c)

Versailles Palace

d)

Paris

16.

The symbol of terror during the French Revolution, used to execute traitors to the revolution.

a)

Guillotine

b)

Robespierre

c)

The Jacobins

d)

The Bastille

17.

Who lead France during the Reign of Terror?

a)

Robespierre

b)

Napoleon

c)

King Louis XIV

d)

King Louis XVI

18.

Which event removed King Louis from the Palace of Versaille?

a)

The Women's March

b)

The Storming of the Batille

c)

The Tennis Court Oath

d)

The Estates General

19.

How did absolute rulers justify their reign?

a)

Through elections

b)

Divine Right Theory

c)

Representative Democracy

d)

Military Coup