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Practice Test 3
Contributed by: Callahan
  • 1. Jacques Necker pushed for all of the following reforms except
A) having the Estates-General vote together
B) more government accountability to the people
C) lessening the tax burden on the poor
D) calling the Estates-General
  • 2. Between 1790 and 1791, what was Louis XVI’s policy concerning the revolution?
A) He did not give his opinion
B) He was heavily involved in the decision-making
C) He openly opposed it
D) He outwardly supported it while looking for ways to undermine it
  • 3. The first revolutionary figure to argue for universal male suffrage was
A) Lafayette
B) Danton
C) Marat
D) Robespierre
  • 4. Which revolutionary figure led the Cordeliers Club?
A) Robespierre
B) Lafayette
C) Danton
D) Marat
  • 5. The French Revolution began because
A) Of the protestant reformation
B) Of a financial crisis
C) The people wanted independence from England
D) The king died
  • 6. Which of the following was not a cause of France’s high debt?
A) Bread subsidies for farmers
B) The American Revolution
C) The Seven Years’ War
D) The building of Versailles
  • 7. How did the French people feel about the American Revolution?
A) They were opposed to independence
B) They supported the Americans to get revenge on Great Britain
C) They didn’t care, for the most part
D) They admired the American effort to get away from monarchy
  • 8. How did the American Revolution impact France?
A) It led to a revolt by the French army
B) It had no effect
C) It increased the financial crisis in France
D) It inspired the French people to get rid of their monarchy
  • 9. What were the May Edicts of 1788?
A) Decrees by the king declaring war on Prussia
B) A series of laws that took power away from the clergy
C) A series of laws that gave power back to the parlements
D) A series of laws that took power away from parlements
  • 10. How did the French people react to the May Edicts?
A) They protested against them
B) They celebrated them
C) They ignored them
D) They largely didn’t care
  • 11. Why did King Louis call the Estates-General?
A) To solve the financial crisis
B) To put down a rebellion
C) To declare war with England
D) To create a constitutional monarchy
  • 12. How were votes distributed in the Estates-General?
A) Votes were decided by percentage of the population
B) Votes were decided by power within society
C) Each estate was given one vote
D) The first and second estates had 2 votes each while the third estate had one vote
  • 13. Eventually, the Third Estate broke away from the Estates-General to form
A) The Commune
B) The National Assembly
C) The French Republic
D) The Parlement of Paris
  • 14. Why did the Third Estate break away from the other two?
A) Both a & b
B) The Third Estate wanted to get rid of the monarchy
C) The First and Second Estate always outvoted the Third Estate
D) The Third Estate was forced to enter through a side door, rather than the front
  • 15. The first person to advocate that the Third Estate become a National Assembly was
A) Chancellor Necker
B) Abbé Sieyès
C) John Locke
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 16. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
A) A promise by the clergy to end the system of tithing
B) A promise by the king to make the Third Estate into the National Assembly
C) A promise by the National Assembly to create a constitution for the country
D) A promise by the Second Estate to allow the Third Estate equal representation
  • 17. Why did Parisians storm the Bastille?
A) to free the prisoners
B) to capture arms
C) to find bread
D) to capture the king
  • 18. Why was the storming of the Bastille successful?
A) None of the above
B) Because the French people were well armed
C) Because the people had the support of the French Guard
D) Because the king allowed them to enter
  • 19. What was the purpose of the National Guard?
A) To fight against the Prussians
B) To protect the Bastille
C) To protect the king
D) To defend the new decrees of the National Assembly
  • 20. The conservative group that wanted to preserve the strong roll of the king was known as the
A) Jacobins
B) Radicals
C) Girondins
D) Monarchiens
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