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Practice Test 1
Contributed by: Callahan
  • 1. Individuals in French society belonged to a variety of groups called
A) Juries
B) Companies
C) Corporations
D) Guilds
  • 2. French parlements served what function?
A) Representative legislatures
B) Executive bodies
C) Public forums
D) Courts of law
  • 3. What was the Estates-General?
A) An Executive body
B) A Representative legislature
C) A Court of law
D) A Public forum
  • 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 clergy
B) The people
C) The king
D) The nobility
  • 6. Which group made up the second estate?
A) The king
B) The clergy
C) The nobility
D) The people
  • 7. Which group made up the third estate?
A) The Nobility
B) The People
C) The clergy
D) The King
  • 8. Before the French Revolution, who paid the most taxes?
A) The King
B) The People
C) The Nobility
D) The clergy
  • 9. The idea that the king was the source of all authority is known as
A) Totalitarianism
B) Absolutism
C) Divine right of kings
D) Despotism
  • 10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?
A) Louis XVI
B) Charles V
C) George III
D) Louis XIV
  • 11. The Constitution of 1791 created what kind of government?
A) A constitutional monarchy
B) A republic
C) A democracy
D) A theocracy
  • 12. Abbe Sieyès advocated for the third estate in a pamphlet called
A) Two Treatises on Government
B) The Social Contract
C) The Declaration of the Rights of Man
D) What is the Third Estate?
  • 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 was not permitted to take part
B) The third estate argued for the same number of votes as the first and second estate combined
C) The third estate advocated for removing the king
D) The third estate refused to allow the first estate to take part
  • 15. How did Sieyes answer the question, “What is the Third Estate?”
A) “Nothing.”
B) “All active citizens.”
C) “Everything.”
D) All property owners.”
  • 16. The purpose of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was to
A) end the monarchy
B) establish universal rights for French people before creating a constitution
C) align France with the United States
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 anti-monarchy than the American Declaration of Independence
C) more specific 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 be considered innocent until proven guilty
C) right to equal taxation
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) freedom of religion
B) ending the monarchy
C) ending of tithes
D) end to corporations
  • 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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