KEY Test #2 Chapter 11 Section 1

KEY
Test #2 Chapter 11 Section 1

1. Which Estate had rights of jobs in government, the army, the courts, and the Church?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

b)

2. In France, which class of the three Estates ran the schools?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

a)

3. Which Estate was considered the highest group previous to the French Revolution?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

a)

4. Which Estate owned about 10% of the best land in France?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

a)

5. Which Estate often lived far from the center of power and although they owned land, they received little financial income, which made retaining their status difficult.

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

e)

6. Which Estate was very diverse, and was made up of the bourgeoisie, or middle class, rural peasants, and urban workers?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

c)


7. Which Estate included prosperous bankers, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and professors?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

c)

8. Which Estate made up the rural peasants and were prosperous landowners who hired workers, or were tenant farmers or day laborers?

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

c)

9. Which Estate was made up of urban workers who were apprentices, journeymen, and others who worked in industries such as printing or cloth making who were the poorest members of society? Many of this Estate worked as servants, stable hands, construction workers, or street sellers or had no job at all. To survive, some turned to begging or crime.

a) The First Estate
b) The Second Estate
c) The Third Estate
d) The monarchy
e) The nobles and the aristocracy

c)

10. What are the four major causes of the French Revolution?

a) Money, Bad Harvest, Estates General, and Anti-clericalism
b) Money, Bad Harvest, Marie Antoinette, and The National Assembly
c) Money, Bad Harvest, Estates General, and The National Assembly
d) Money, Bad Harvest, Marie Antoinette, and King Louis XVI
e) Money, Bastille, Marie Antoinette, and King Louis XVI

c) Money, Bad Harvest, Estates General, and The National Assembly

11. What did the Estates General accumulate, list, and write?

a) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
b) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Cahiers
c) Citizens
d) Citizens and Cahiers
e) Cahiers

e) cahiers

12. Who called for the meeting of the Estates General?
a) King Louis XV
b) Marie Antoinette
c) Voltaire
d) King Louis XVI
e) Revolutionaries

d) King Louis XVI

13. During the moderate phase of the Revolution, who asked that the nobility help to reform the tax system?

a) King Louis XV
b) Marie Antoinette
c) Voltaire
d) King Louis XVI
e) Revolutionaries

d)

14. What were the years of terrible weather in France?

a) 1786-1789
b) 1787-1789
c) 1787-1790
d) 1785-1789
e) 1784-1789

b) 1787-1789

15. What happened during the years of terrible weather?

a) Food prices went up, income decreased, and many people found themselves unemployed.
b) Food prices went up, income increased, and many people found themselves unemployed.
c) Food prices went down, income decreased, and many people found themselves unemployed.
d) Food prices went up, income decreased, and many people found themselves employed.
e) Food prices went down, income increased, and many people found themselves employed.

a) food prices went up, income decreased, and many people found themselves unemployed.

16. In August of 1788, the Estates General, or a gathering of representatives from all three estates, met at the palace of Versailles for the first time since:

a) 1613
b) 1614
c) 1615
d) 1616
e) 1617

b) 1614

17. The deputies of the Third Estate grew tired of arguments about voting and so declared themselves the:

a) The National Congress
b) The National Representatives
c) The National Guard
d) The National Assembly
e) The National League

d) The National Assembly

18. The deputies decided to create:

a) chaos
b) a Constitution
c) The Declaration of the Right of Man and Cahiers
d) The Declaration
e) The Declaration of the Bill of Rights

b) a Constitution

19. On June 20th the deputies met where?

a) at the Salon
b) at the royal tennis court
c) at the royal badminton court
d) at the royal stables
e) at the royal ring

b) at the royal tennis court

20. The Third estate could be called:

a) "the kitchen cabinet category"
b) "the kitchen sink category"
c) "the kitchen salon category"
d) "the kitchen corner category"
e) "the kitchen category"

b) "the kitchen sink category"

21. The Third Estate included about:

a) 98 percent of the population
b) 98 percent of the Second Estate
c) 98 percent of Paris
d) 98 percent of the cahiers
e) 98 percent of the salons, cahiers, and the peasantry

a) 98 percent of the population

22. Why did the Third Estate object to each estate's having one vote in the Estates-General?

a) The Third Estate objected to each of the Estates having one vote because the First and Second Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.
b) The Second Estate objected to each of the Three Estates having one vote because the First and Third Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.
c) The First Estate objected to each of the Estates having one vote because the Second and the Third Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.
d) The Third Estate objected to each of the Estates having one vote because all the Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.
e) The Third Estate objected to each of the Estates having one vote because the Second and the Third Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.

a) The Third Estate objected to each of the Estates having one vote because the First and Second Estate's votes would almost always coincide due to their high placement in society.

23. What was the significance of the Constitution of 1791?

a) It limited the role of taxes
b) It limited the monarchy
c) It limited the bourgeosie
d) It limited the Queen
e) It limited the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

b) It limited the monarchy

Fill in the Blank
24. The Constitution of 1791 set up a limited monarchy in place of the ________ monarchy that had ruled France for centuries.

a) limited
b) constitutional
c) democratic
d) absolute
e) capitalist

d) absolute

What or Who am I?
25. Feudalism was a type of government practiced in the:

a) middle ages
b) modern ages
c) mid-16th Century
d) middle of the capitalist era
e) middle of the Revolution

a) middle ages

26. A term created 1790 - 1792 by the French to describe the poorer members of the Third Estate, according to the dominant theory because they usually wore pantaloons (full-length trousers) instead of the fashionable knee-length culotte. An extreme radical republican during the French Revolution.

a) bourgeoisie
b) Sans-Culottes
c) First Estate
d) Nobles and aristocracy
e) First Estate and nobles

b) Sans-Culottes

27. Lived from 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. French author and activist who achieved modest success as a play wright in the 18th century, but she became best known for her political writing and support of the French Revolution. Considered a feminist pioneer, she was an advocate of women's rights. Her most famous work was "The Declaration of the Rights of Woman", (1791). Even in revolutionary France, feminist ideas were considered radical. In 1793, she was executed for crimes against the government.

a) Marie Antoinette
b) Mistress du Bary
c) Mistress Pompidour
d) Olympe de Gouges
e) Maria Theresa

d) Olympe de Gouges

28. A political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution).

a) Ancien Régime
b) Capitalism
c) Feudalism
d) Commons
e) Syndicalism

a) Ancien Régime

29. The social group between the lower and upper classes. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. This group was also considered to be the "movers and shakers" behind the French Revolution.

a) Sans-Culottes
b) peasants, but mostly in rural regions
c) Bourgeoisie
d) rising urban unemployed
e) upwardly mobile

c) Bourgeoisie

Who am I?
30. French financier and politician who advocated the formation of the States-General to effect financial reform. His brief dismissal by Louis XVI (1789) precipitated the storming of the Bastille.

a) Marie Antoinette
b) Olympe de Gouges
c) King Louis XV
d) Voltaire
e) Jacques Necker

e) Jacques Necker