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WorksheetsPrelude to the French Revolution and Pt. 1 Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 6hrs 15mins
A machine used during the French Revolution to execute people:
Bourgeoisie
Enlightenment
Clergy
Guillotine
Wealthy and educated middle class:
Bourgeoisie
Clergy
Tithe
Versailles
The extravagant home to king and queens during the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries:
Enlightenment
Guillotine
Versailles
Social Contract
A period in the 1700's in which philosophers wrote about things like individual rights, personal freedoms and stirred things up in the French Revolution:
Bourgeoisie
Enlightenment
Versailles
tithe
Ordained members of the church in France, the Catholic Church:
Clergy
Tithe
Bourgeoisie
Versailles
Before the Revolution, France had been ruled by an absolute monarch. His name was:
Louis XIV
Leopold XV
Louis XVI
Henry VIII
Which was NOT a cause of the French Revolution?
An unfair tax system
Increasing food prices and bread shortages
Spending by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
The price of tea in China
What was the correct ratio of population to ownership of land in Pre-Revolutionary France?
10:75
3:50
1:90
25:50
The nobility in France referred to the bourgeoisie as:
filthy animals
scum of the earth
dirty tradesmen
ne'er do wells
One major complaint that the French people had about the judicial system was the concept that:
a person was guilty until proven innocent
a person was innocent until proven guilty
everyone had freedom of speech
everyone had freedom of press
The King and his wife lived a very comfy life at he Palace of :
The Iron Throne
Solitude
Versailles
Nevermore
At the start of the Revolution, the 1st step that Louis XVI took was to call a meeting of the :
Congress
Clergy
Enlightenment
Estates General
The 1st Estate was made up of :
Nobility
Clergy
Everyone else
Slaves
The 2nd Estate was made up of :
Nobility
Clergy
Everyone else
Slaves
The 3rd Estate was made up of :
Clergy
Nobility
Slaves
Everyone else
The Tennis Court Oath was actually signed on a tennis court:
True
False
None
None
Louis XVI locked the 1st Estate out of the meeting of the estates General:
True
False
None
None
Some of the nobility married some of the bourgeoisie:
True
False
None
None
The Bourgeoisie included bankers, lawyers, and educators:
True
False
None
None
The 4th estate became the National Assembly:
True
False
None
None
Radicals stormed the Bastille to get weapons:
True
False
None
None
The National Assembly proclaimed the DoRoMac
True
False
None
None
A bunch of children marched on Versailles after a rumor about Marie Antoinette:
True
False
None
None
The National Assembly killed 500 Jacobins to start the French Revolution:
True
False
None
None
King louis XVI was sentenced to die by the guillotine:
True
False
None
None
