Practice Test 1

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

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

2. French parlements served what function?

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

3. What was the Estates-General?

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

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

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

5. Which group made up the first estate?

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

6. Which group made up the second estate?

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

7. Which group made up the third estate?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?

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

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

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

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

A) The Social Contract
B) The Declaration of the Rights of Man
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 should be treated harshly before rebellion breaks out
C) That the third estate should banish the other estates
D) That the third estate was a complete nation without need of the other, privileged estates

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

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

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

A) “Everything.”
B) “All active citizens.”
C) All property owners.”
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) protest against the king
D) establish universal rights for French people before creating a constitution

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

A) more abstract than the American Declaration of Independence
B) more specific than the American Declaration of Independence
C) more pro-religious freedom 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 equal taxation
C) right to bear arms
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) ending the monarchy
B) freedom of religion
C) end to corporations
D) ending of tithes

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

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

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