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French Revolution Quiz

How much have you learned about the 4. The _____ Estate was an unprivileged French Revolution? Take this quiz to find class, containing the bulk of the out. Select the best answer for each population. question. a. First b. Second 1. What was the socio-political system c. Third which existed in most of Europe d. Fourth during the 18th century? a. democracy 5. Poll tax: b. Holy Roman Empire a. Capitation c. Old Regime b. Octrot d. Totalitarianism c. Taille d. Tithe 2. Under _____, the monarch has absolute control over the government. 6. Blank warrants of arrest were called a. absolutism _____. b. constitutional monarchy a. lettres de cachet c. democracy b. joie de vivre d. totalitarianism c. nom de plume d. warrants des arrests 3. The _____ Estate was a privileged class, containing the nobility. 7. Louis XVI was married to _____. a. First a. Josephine Beauharnais b. Second b. Madame Bovary c. Third c. Maria Teresa d. Fourth d. Marie Antoinette

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8. _____ were traditional lists of 10.When news of Louis XVI’s plan to use grievances written by the people. military force against the National a. Cahiers Assembly reached Paris on July 14, b. Intendants 1789, Parisians stormed the _____. c. Lettres de cachet a. Bastille d. Octrots b. Eiffel Tower c. Tuileries Palace 9. Based your answer to the following d. Versailles Palace question on this selection: 11.In July, 1789, Parisians organized their “The National Assembly, considering own government which they called the that it has been summoned to establish _____. the constitution of the kingdom, to a. Assembly effect the regeneration of the public b. Commune order, and to maintain the true c. Convention principles of monarchy; that nothing d. Directory can prevent it from continuing the deliberations in whatever place it may 12.Nobles who fled France became be forced to establish itself; and finally, known as _____. that wheresoever its members are a. émigrés assembled, there is the National b. expatriots Assembly…” (Tennis Court Oath, c. immigrants 1789). d. lords

According to this excerpt from the 13.Who wrote Declaration of the Rights Tennis Court Oath, the National of Woman? Assembly believed its job was to a. Jeanne Roland _____. b. Josephine Beauharnais c. Marie Antoinette a. address only the cahiers d. Olympe de Gouges b. create a constitution c. overthrow the monarchy d. write a new penal code

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