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France's Old Regime, Economic Crisis, and Estates-General Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which estate did the nobility belong to?

a)

First Estate

b)

Second Estate

c)

Third Estate

d)

Fourth Estate

2.

What economic practice is described as spending more money than is made?

a)

Surplus spending

b)

Balanced budgeting

c)

Deficit spending

d)

Investment spending

3.

What was one of the causes of rising food prices in the late 1780s?

a)

Economic boom

b)

Good harvests

c)

Bad harvests

d)

Technological advancements

4.

What was the estates-general?

a)

A military alliance

b)

A meeting of all three estates

c)

A financial institution

d)

A royal decree

5.

What were the cahiers prepared for the estates-general?

a)

Military strategies

b)

Notebooks of grievances

c)

Royal decrees

d)

Economic plans

6.

Which group was primarily involved in the Tennis Court Oath?

a)

The clergy

b)

The nobility

c)

The third estate

d)

The royal family

7.

What did the grievances in the cahiers often include?

a)

Demands for more colonies

b)

Calls for fairer taxes and freedom of the press

c)

Requests for more royal palaces

d)

Proposals for new trade routes

8.
Most of the people of France belonged to the 
a)
1st Estate
b)
2nd Estate
c)
3rd Estate
d)
4th Estate
9.

The clergy were part of the:

a)
First Estate
b)
Second Estate
c)
Third Estate
10.

France was deep in debt because of

a)

money spent on foreign wars and the American Revolution

b)

the king and queens lavish spending

c)

the 1st and 2nd estates not paying taxes

d)
all of the above