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