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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) Swear an oath to the Constitution and new French government
C) Renounce the pope
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) Paris and the surrounding area
D) The Loire Valley
  • 3. How did Pope Pius VI react to the Civil Constitution?
A) He approved of it
B) He ordered members of the clergy in France not to take the oath
C) He ordered members of the clergy in France to take the oath
D) He did not give his opinion
  • 4. What was meant by the term "bourgeoisie"?
A) The poor
B) A member of the nobility
C) The head of a guild
D) A wealthy, non-noble resident of a city
  • 5. Which of the following groups was most responsible for starting the French Revolution?
A) General Lafayette and the army
B) The clergy
C) The bourgeoisie
D) Peasants in Paris
  • 6. Which of the following movements influenced the French Revolution? a.
    The Second Great Awakening
A) The Glorious Revolution
B) The Second Great Awakening
C) The Catholic Reformation
D) The Enlightenment
  • 7. How did the Enlightenment impact religion in France?
A) France created its own religion
B) People became more religious
C) The French people broke away from Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church
D) People began to question religious teachings
  • 8. Which of the following authors developed the idea of the "social contract"?
A) John Locke
B) Edmund Burke
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) Baron de Montesquieu
  • 9. Which of the following authors wrote, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains”?
A) Edmund Burke
B) Baron de Montesquieu
C) John Locke
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 10. What were the colors of the French revolution?
A) Blue and white
B) Red and white
C) Blue, white, and red
D) Red and blue
  • 11. Which color(s) represented France, specifically Paris?
A) Both a & b
B) Red
C) White
D) Blue
  • 12. Which color(s) represented the “nation” of France?
A) Red
B) White
C) Blue
D) Both a & b
  • 13. Revolutionaries began wearing what symbol to show their support?
A) berets
B) green pins
C) the tricolour cockade
D) culottes
  • 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 were free in the 18th century
D) Newspapers did not try to be objective in the 18th century
  • 15. Marie Antoinette was from which European country?
A) Prussia
B) Great Britian
C) Germany
D) Austria
  • 16. Jacques-Louis David became famous for a style of art known as
A) Neoclassicism
B) Romanticism
C) Impressionism
D) Rococo
  • 17. The artist who became famous for capturing everyday French middle class life was
A) Eugene Delacroix
B) Jacques-Louis David
C) Louis-Leopold
D) Claude Monet
  • 18. Marie Antoinette was not popular with the people because
A) All of the above
B) She excluded many of the old noble families from court
C) She spent extravagantly
D) She exercised power over the king
  • 19. The physiocrats were
A) A group of nobles who advocated ending the monarchy
B) A group of Protestant priests
C) French people who moved to Austria
D) Economic reformers who advocated a single tax on soil
  • 20. Jacques Necker became famous throughout France for what?
A) Being exiled to Switzerland
B) Abolishing the parlements
C) Fighting with the Americans
D) Publishing a report on the French government’s finances
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