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Practice Test 1
Contributed by: Callahan
  • 1. Individuals in French society belonged to a variety of groups called
A) Guilds
B) Corporations
C) Juries
D) Companies
  • 2. French parlements served what function?
A) Courts of law
B) Representative legislatures
C) Public forums
D) Executive bodies
  • 3. What was the Estates-General?
A) An Executive body
B) A Public forum
C) A Court of law
D) A Representative legislature
  • 4. Before the French Revolution, France had what form of government?
A) absolute monarchy
B) democracy
C) constitutional monarchy
D) oligarchy
  • 5. Which group made up the first estate?
A) The king
B) The people
C) The clergy
D) The nobility
  • 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 King
B) The clergy
C) The Nobility
D) The People
  • 8. Before the French Revolution, who paid the most taxes?
A) The clergy
B) The People
C) The Nobility
D) The King
  • 9. The idea that the king was the source of all authority is known as
A) Absolutism
B) Divine right of kings
C) Despotism
D) Totalitarianism
  • 10. Absolutism reached its peak under which French king?
A) Louis XVI
B) Louis XIV
C) Charles V
D) George III
  • 11. The Constitution of 1791 created what kind of government?
A) A democracy
B) A theocracy
C) A republic
D) A constitutional monarchy
  • 12. Abbe Sieyès advocated for the third estate in a pamphlet called
A) Two Treatises on Government
B) The Declaration of the Rights of Man
C) The Social Contract
D) What is the Third Estate?
  • 13. What was the chief argument of Sieyès pamphlet?
A) That the third estate should banish the other estates
B) That the third estate needed the other estates to survive
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 advocated for removing the king
C) The third estate refused to allow the first estate to take part
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) “Nothing.”
C) “All active citizens.”
D) All property owners.”
  • 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) align France with the United States
C) end the monarchy
D) protest against the king
  • 17. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was
A) more specific than the American Declaration of Independence
B) more abstract 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 be considered innocent until proven guilty
C) right to bear arms
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 of tithes
B) ending the monarchy
C) freedom of religion
D) end to corporations
  • 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) both A & B
D) the royal veto
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