Practice Test 2
  • 1. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy stated that priests had to do what in order to be paid?
A) Renounce the pope
B) Swear loyalty to the king
C) Swear an oath to the Constitution and new French government
D) Give up representation in the National Assembly
  • 2. Which regions were least likely to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
A) Regions on the periphery
B) Mostly French-speaking regions
C) The Loire Valley
D) Paris and the surrounding area
  • 3. How did Pope Pius VI react to the Civil Constitution?
A) He ordered members of the clergy in France not to take the oath
B) He approved of it
C) He did not give his opinion
D) He ordered members of the clergy in France to take the oath
  • 4. What was meant by the term "bourgeoisie"?
A) A wealthy, non-noble resident of a city
B) The head of a guild
C) The poor
D) A member of the nobility
  • 5. Which of the following groups was most responsible for starting the French Revolution?
A) General Lafayette and the army
B) Peasants in Paris
C) The clergy
D) The bourgeoisie
  • 6. Which of the following movements influenced the French Revolution? a.
    The Second Great Awakening
A) The Second Great Awakening
B) The Glorious Revolution
C) The Enlightenment
D) The Catholic Reformation
  • 7. How did the Enlightenment impact religion in France?
A) The French people broke away from Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church
B) People began to question religious teachings
C) People became more religious
D) France created its own religion
  • 8. Which of the following authors developed the idea of the "social contract"?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Edmund Burke
C) John Locke
D) Baron de Montesquieu
  • 9. Which of the following authors wrote, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains”?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) John Locke
C) Edmund Burke
D) Baron de Montesquieu
  • 10. What were the colors of the French revolution?
A) Blue and white
B) Red and blue
C) Red and white
D) Blue, white, and red
  • 11. Which color(s) represented France, specifically Paris?
A) Red
B) Blue
C) Both a & b
D) White
  • 12. Which color(s) represented the “nation” of France?
A) Blue
B) White
C) Both a & b
D) Red
  • 13. Revolutionaries began wearing what symbol to show their support?
A) culottes
B) the tricolour cockade
C) berets
D) green pins
  • 14. How were newspapers different in the 18th century from today?
A) Newspapers did not try to be objective in the 18th century
B) More people could read in the 18th century than today
C) Newspapers were free in the 18th century
D) Newspapers had no advertisements in the 18th century
  • 15. Marie Antoinette was from which European country?
A) Great Britian
B) Prussia
C) Germany
D) Austria
  • 16. Jacques-Louis David became famous for a style of art known as
A) Rococo
B) Neoclassicism
C) Impressionism
D) Romanticism
  • 17. The artist who became famous for capturing everyday French middle class life was
A) Jacques-Louis David
B) Claude Monet
C) Louis-Leopold
D) Eugene Delacroix
  • 18. Marie Antoinette was not popular with the people because
A) She excluded many of the old noble families from court
B) All of the above
C) She exercised power over the king
D) She spent extravagantly
  • 19. The physiocrats were
A) A group of Protestant priests
B) Economic reformers who advocated a single tax on soil
C) A group of nobles who advocated ending the monarchy
D) French people who moved to Austria
  • 20. Jacques Necker became famous throughout France for what?
A) Publishing a report on the French government’s finances
B) Fighting with the Americans
C) Being exiled to Switzerland
D) Abolishing the parlements
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