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) Representative legislatures
D) Executive bodies

3. What was the Estates-General?

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

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

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

5. Which group made up the first estate?

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

6. Which group made up the second estate?

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

7. Which group made up the third estate?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?

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

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

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

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

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

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 banish the other estates
C) That the third estate should be treated harshly before rebellion breaks out
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) “All active citizens.”
B) “Nothing.”
C) All property owners.”
D) “Everything.”

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

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

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

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

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

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