Practice Test 1

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

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

2. French parlements served what function?

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

3. What was the Estates-General?

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

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

A) absolute monarchy
B) democracy
C) oligarchy
D) constitutional 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 clergy
B) The king
C) The nobility
D) The people

7. Which group made up the third estate?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was the chief argument of Sieyès pamphlet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) more specific than the American Declaration of Independence
B) more anti-monarchy than the American Declaration of Independence
C) more abstract than the American Declaration of Independence
D) more pro-religious freedom 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 bear arms
B) right to free speech
C) right to be considered innocent until proven guilty
D) right to equal taxation

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

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

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

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

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