Chapter 18 Study Practice

What was the name of social classes in France?

• Classes
• Estates
• Castes
• Royals

Which of the following estates was made up of mostly peasants and middle class?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate

True or False: The First and Second Estate paid taxes to the French government.

• True
• False

What group of people made up the first estate?

• Clergy
• Nobles
• Peasants
• Middle Class

In what city did most French nobles live?

• Paris
• Dunkirk
• Versailles
• Berlin

True or False: The bulk of the third estate was made up of peasants.

• True
• False

What was the biggest burden of the Third Estate?

• Lack of rights
• Taxes
• Starvation
• Bread Riots

Who did Louis XVI appoint to be his financial advisor?

• Jacques Necker
• Louis XV
• Jean Val Jean
• Maximillien Robespierre

What was the legislative body that had members of all three estates meet?

• Parliament
• Estates-General
• Congress
• National Assembly

The event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution was?

• The storming of the Bastille
• The meeting of the Estates General
• The beheading of King Louis XVI
• Napoleon's Rise to Power