French Revolution Quiz

What issue led to the first meeting of the Estates-General in 175 years?

• Proposed taxation of the Second Estate
• Political representation in the government
• Food shortages and riots among the peasants
• Equalizing the tax burden among the Three Estates

_____________ refer to the three classes into which French society was divided before the revolution.

• Peasantry
• Estates
• Consulates
• None of the aboe

About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Third Estate?

• 1%
• 2%
• 97%

About what percentage of France’s population belonged to the Second Estate?

• 1%
• 2%
• 97%

Peasants belonged to what estate?

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

What happened on July 14, Bastille Day?

• Robespierre was executed buy guillotine
• French women marched all the way to Versailles
• A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder
• All of the above are true

Why did government finances come close to collapse in the 1780s?

• manufacturing
• rising prices
• food shortages
• overspending

Which issue was a cause of the French Revolution?

• ineffective rule of Napoleon Bonaparte
• nationalization of the Church
• outrage over the use of the guillotine by the Committee of Public Safety
• demand of the Third Estate for more political power

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.

• Oath of the Estates General
• Tennis Court Oath
• Diamond Court Oath
• None of the above

Who belonged to the first estate?

• Nobles
• Peasants
• Clergy
• King