Practice Test 1

1. Individuals in French society belonged to a variety of groups called

A) Companies
B) Guilds
C) Juries
D) Corporations

2. French parlements served what function?

A) Public forums
B) Courts of law
C) Executive bodies
D) Representative legislatures

3. What was the Estates-General?

A) An Executive body
B) A Representative legislature
C) A Public forum
D) A Court of law

4. Before the French Revolution, France had what form of government?

A) oligarchy
B) constitutional monarchy
C) democracy
D) absolute monarchy

5. Which group made up the first estate?

A) The nobility
B) The people
C) The clergy
D) The king

6. Which group made up the second estate?

A) The nobility
B) The king
C) The clergy
D) The people

7. Which group made up the third estate?

A) The clergy
B) The Nobility
C) The King
D) The People

8. Before the French Revolution, who paid the most taxes?

A) The People
B) The clergy
C) The Nobility
D) The King

9. The idea that the king was the source of all authority is known as

A) Totalitarianism
B) Divine right of kings
C) Despotism
D) Absolutism

10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?

A) George III
B) Louis XIV
C) Charles V
D) Louis XVI

11. The Constitution of 1791 created what kind of government?

A) A democracy
B) A theocracy
C) A republic
D) A constitutional monarchy

12. Abbe Sieyès advocated for the third estate in a pamphlet called

A) What is the Third Estate?
B) Two Treatises on Government
C) The Social Contract
D) The Declaration of the Rights of Man

13. What was the chief argument of Sieyès pamphlet?

A) That the third estate should banish the other estates
B) That the third estate was a complete nation without need of the other, privileged estates
C) That the third estate needed the other estates to survive
D) That the third estate should be treated harshly before rebellion breaks out

14. How did Sieyès pamphlet influence the Estates-General?

A) The third estate was not permitted to take part
B) The third estate advocated for removing the king
C) The third estate refused to allow the first estate to take part
D) The third estate argued for the same number of votes as the first and second estate combined

15. How did Sieyes answer the question, “What is the Third Estate?”

A) All property owners.”
B) “All active citizens.”
C) “Everything.”
D) “Nothing.”

16. The purpose of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was to

A) align France with the United States
B) end the monarchy
C) establish universal rights for French people before creating a constitution
D) protest against the king

17. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was

A) more pro-religious freedom than the American Declaration of Independence
B) more specific than the American Declaration of Independence
C) more abstract than the American Declaration of Independence
D) more anti-monarchy than the American Declaration of Independence

18. All of the following rights were protected in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen except

A) right to free speech
B) right to bear arms
C) right to equal taxation
D) right to be considered innocent until proven guilty

19. Which of the following issues was most debated before the creation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

A) freedom of religion
B) ending of tithes
C) end to corporations
D) ending the monarchy

20. After issuing the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the National Assembly took on which issue?

A) whether to have a one or two house legislature
B) the royal veto
C) both A & B
D) the role of the church in government

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