French Revolution

1. Which of the following was the underlying cause of the other three?

• King Louis XIV and his family, after attempting to flee France, are arrested and accused of treason.

• The people of France no longer trust their monarch and demand his punishment.

• The king of Austria and his royal allies in Europe prepare to invade France to save Louis and restore him to the throne.

• The Directory and Robespierre execute Louis XIV for crimes against France.

All of the following are causes of the French Revolution EXCEPT?

• Unfair taxation laws place the heaviest financial burden on the Third Estate.

• The king and nobles lived a life of luxury while the peasants of the Third Estate often lived in extreme poverty.

• Middle class Frenchmen, assigned to the Third Estate, had no voice in government and were forced to pay unfairly high taxes.

• King Louis XIV executed thousands of members of the Third Estate who spoke out against the government or somehow displeased him.

Which cause is paired with the correct result?

• Parisian bread shortages ---> French peasants turn against the revolutionaries for failing to provide food to the people.

• Women’s march to Versailles ---> the King’s personal guard holds the protestors prisoner until the revolutionaries surrender and restore the king to the throne.

• Austria declares war on France ---> the revolution comes to an end and the king is restored to the throne without hesitation.

• The women of Paris march on Versailles ---> the king’s soldiers refuse to attack the protesters and the women taken the king hostage.

A historian writing about the French Revolution would be LEAST interested in examining?

• French tax laws prior to the outbreak of fighting.

• The architectural designs for the palace of Versailles

• The attack of the Bastille

• The Parisian bread shortages of 1789

Which source would be MOST important to a historian investigating the role women played in the French Revolution?

• A text detailing the Parisian bread shortages of 1789.

• A first-hand account of the Austrian invasion of France following the flight of the king and the royal family.

• A list of all individuals sentenced to death during Robespierre’s Reign of Terror.

• A detailed floorplan of the Bastille.

Which of the following groups of items are most associated with Reign of Terror during the French Revolution?

• The Bastille and the Parisian Bread Shortages of 1789.

• The Estates General and the Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The guillotine and Maximillian Robespierre

• The Palace of Versailles and the unfair tax burden on the Third Estate

Which individual is NOT correctly matched to (his/her) accomplishments?

• Maximillian Robespierre ---> initiated the Reign of Terror

• a. Louis XIV ---> disbanded the Estates General and triggered a political revolt

• a. Marie Antoinette ---> openly supported the protestors and called for the king’s arrest.

• a. The king of Austria ---> led an invasion of France to contain revolutionary ideas.

The primary issue during the meeting of the Estates General about which Third Estate and other two disagreed was?

• The costs associated with maintaining the king’s palace at Versailles.

• The preferential treatment enjoyed by nobles and clergy in French courts of law.

• The unequal political representation of the peasant classes which denied the Third Estate equal voting powers.

• The king’s insistence that all men in the Third Estate serve in the army for a minimum of two years.

Which of the following groups or individuals most likely had contrasting points of view on the structure of French government?

• Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette

• Marie Antoinette and the King of Austria

• Maximillian Robespierre and Louis XIV

• The First and Second Estates

Which of the following choices is a result, or consequence, of the other three?

• The Third Estate and their supporters in the upper classes of French society work together to overthrow the corrupt government of the French king.

• The Second and First Estates are exempt [not required] to pay taxes to the French government.

• France, due to a series of costly wars with Great Britain, finds itself in debt and unable to function without raising taxes.

• The French peasants must support the life of wealth and luxury that the king and the nobility enjoy.