Chapter 7 French Revolution Information
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- 1.The social and political system used in France in the 1770s, called the ___, had been in place since the Middle Ages.
- A.
Frankish Kingdom
- B.
Old Regime or Ancien Régime
- C.
Mercantilism
- D.
Continental System
- 2.King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette known for _____________.
- A.
Being strong leaders
- B.
Holding Church services at Versailles
- C.
Working with the poor in soup kitchens
- D.
Wasting money
- 3.Who made up the First Estate?
- A.
Church officials
- B.
Nobility
- C.
Poor people in cities
- D.
Rural peasants
- 4.Who made up the Second Estate?
- A.
Church officials
- B.
Nobility
- C.
Poor people in cities
- D.
Rural peasants
- 5.Who made up the Third Estate?
- A.
Church officials
- B.
Nobility
- C.
The rest who were not in the 1st and 2nd: middle class (Bankers, merchants, lawyers, factory owners, skilled artisans); poor city workers; rural peasants
- 6.About what percent of France's population belonged to the First and Second Estates?
- A.
2 or 3
- B.
10
- C.
50
- D.
97 or 98
- 7.About what percent of France's population belonged to the Third Estate?
- A.
2 or 3
- B.
10
- C.
50
- D.
97 or 98
- 8.Prior to the French Revolution the Church owned _____ of the property in France.
- A.
1%
- B.
10%
- C.
20%
- D.
25%
- 9.One of the precipitating events of the French Revolution was when King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General for the purposes of what?
- A.
He wanted to give rights to peasants.
- B.
He needed to raise taxes, and the only way he could raise a lot of taxes was through this type of meeting.
- C.
He wanted to allow more people to vote.
- D.
He wanted to raise money to expand the spice trade.
- 10.When Third Estate delegates were forced to find a new meeting place, they made a pledge called the _________ to continue their meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.
- A.
Constitution Oath
- B.
New France Oath
- C.
Pledge of Allegiance to the France
- D.
Tennis Court Oath
- 11.What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?
- A.
Robespierre was executed by guillotine.
- B.
French women marched all the way to Versailles.
- C.
A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder. They cut off the head of the warden and put it on a pike.
- D.
All of the above are true.
- 12.The National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of _________ and the Citizen.
- A.
The French
- B.
Europeans
- C.
Westerners
- D.
Man
- 13.In October 1789, Parisian women revolted over rising price of _______.
- A.
Bread
- B.
Wine
- C.
Cloth
- D.
Marriage
- 14.When King Louis XVI was scared that he might be harmed, he tried to ___________.
- A.
Escape from France with his family
- B.
Kill the revolutionary leaders
- C.
Conduct a meeting of the Estates-General
- D.
Free the slaves
- 15.___________ was the name of the machine designed during the Revolution to quickly cut off people’s heads.
- A.
Skull Crusher
- B.
The decapitator
- C.
Flogger
- D.
The guillotine
- 16.___________ was the Jacobin leader who ruled France for a year as a dictator.
- A.
Marquis de Lafayette
- B.
Maximilien Robespierre
- C.
Napoleon
- D.
Jean Girard
- 17.During the French Revolution, the French were ___________, because many different groups affected various changes in government.
- A.
Normal
- B.
Sane
- C.
Refreshing
- D.
Crazy
- 18.During the ______________ as many as 40,000 French people were executed for being “enemies of the revolution”.
- A.
Time of Peace
- B.
Reign of Terror
- C.
Regime of Peasants
- D.
Great Democracy
- 19.Following the craziness of 1794, the __________ was created along with a bicameral legislature to govern France and restore order.
- A.
Directory
- B.
Commune
- C.
Jacobin Committee
- D.
Committee for Public Safety
- 20.A ___________describes a sudden, forceful seizure of governmental control.
- A.
Coupe de ville
- B.
Coup d'état
- C.
Coup arama
- D.
Curlew
- 21.What marked the end of the French Revolution?
- A.
Great Britain defeated France shortly after the Storming of the Bastille.
- B.
In 1799, Napoleon and a small group overthrew the Directory and took control of the government.
- C.
The Congress of Vienna sent in military troops to put down Napoleon’s coup de etat.
- D.
Russia conquered lands East of Paris.
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