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1.Among the causes of the French Revolution was
the
A. excessive spending of King Louis XVI.
B. rise of the National Assembly.
C. Reign of Terror.
D. loss of the Old Regime.
2.In Pre-Revolutionary France, estates were
A. homes of noble men.
B. social classes.
C. systems of taxation.
D. clubs for radicals.
3. The main obstacle to solving financial problems
was
a. the extravagant lifestyle of Louis XVI
b. the unwillingness of the Third Estate to pay more
c. the fact that both the nobility and the clergy
were exempt from most taxes
d. foreign wars
e. a bad economy
4.At the start of the Estates General, members of the
Third Estate refused to have their credentials
officially recognized because
a. They resented that the three estates met
and voted separately
b. They doubted that decisions would be
made by fully democratic means
c. The aristocracy also refused to show
credentials
d. They resented the attempt to include
peasant within the Third Estate
e. The king refused to hold future meetings of
the Estates General
5.Prior to the Revolution in France, there was great
fear of a poor grain harvest because
a. Bread was the mainstay of the workingclass diet; high grain prices meant
malnutrition, disease, and starvation
b. Factory workers would have to be paid
more
c. The queen had little sympathy for the poor
d. There would be foreign competition
e. All of the above
6..Which of the following groupings represents the
membership of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd estates
respectively?
a. Clergy; nobility; commercial and
professional middle class
b. Nobility; clergy; commercial and
professional middle class
c. commercial and professional middle class,
nobility;clergy
d. clergy; commercial and professional middle
class;nobility
7.The proposed gabelle of Charles do Calonne was a
tax on
a. Marriage
b. Newspapers
c. Salt
d. Sugar
e. Land
8. The primary problem facing Louis XVI in the late
1780s was
a. Peasant unrest
b. British naval expansion
c. The poverty of the French nation
d. The refusal of the the Third Estate to pay
taxes
e. The bankruptcy of the monarchy
10 Early in the French Revolution, The National
Assembly agreed to peasant demand for an end to
all things feudal in order to
a. Restore law and order
b. Get the support of the san-culottes
c. Carry out Rousseau’s Social Contract
d. Punish the nobility for not supporting the
third estate
e. Carry out the principles for the new
constitution
11. Louis XVI convened the Estates General in order
to :
a. gain support for an expedition to quash the
rebellion in the colony of Saint Dominique
b. gain support for war against England
c. raise tax revenues
d. gain support for his push to end papal power in
France
e. resolve the question of voting rights for the
peasantry
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12.The French parlements spoke for the interests of
this group
a. the guilds
b. the poor
c. the peasantry
d. the aristocracy
e. the clergy
13.He was responsible for the introduction of the
revolutionary land tax that all landowners would
have to pay regardless of their social status
a. Charles Alexandre de Calonne
b. Louis XV
c. Rene Maupeou
d. Jacques Necker
e. Louis XIV
14.The parliament of Paris declared that only the
a. parliament itself could institute new taxes
b. National Assembly could institiute new taxes
c. People’s assembly could institute new taxes
d. Estates General could establish new taxes
e. king could institute new taxes
15.The Second Estate of the Estates General were
made up of the
a. clergy
b. nobility
c. peasants
d. middle class
e. artisans
16.By which of the following ways did the aristocracy
attempt to limit the influence of the Third Estate?
a. they demanded that each estate have an equal
number of representatives
b. they levied excessive “luxury” taxes on the estate
c. they attempted to disband the estate all together
d. they prevented delegates from attending the
Estates General
e. They demanded that each individual should have
a vote in the Estates General
17.The cahiers, or grievance lists, prepared prior to
the meeting of the French Estates General in 1789
showed that the people wanted
a. Freedom of religion and the press
b. Equality before the law
c. Equal taxation
d. Equal opportunity for positions in
government
e. All of the above
18. The cahiers de doleances presented to the king
included all of the following grievances EXCEPT
criticism of
a. indirect taxes
b. the hunting rights of the aristocracy
c. the institution of monarchy as a whole
d. corruption
e. government waste
19. When the French people drew up cahiers(list of
grievances) in 1789 for the Estates to consider,
which of the following would NOT have been likely
a. the peasants wanted relief from feudal dues
b. the bourgeoisie called for access to high office in
the military and government
c. shopkeepers wanted an end to unnessary taxes on
commerce
d. the nobles wanted an expansion of royal power
e. the clergy wanted protection of monastic
20. Throughout the winter and spring of 1789, the
high prices for this commodity produced riots
a. wine
b. cotton
c. beef
d. cheese
e. bread
22.Maupeou wished to do away with the old
parlements of France because
a. They interfered with the king’s efforts to
raise an army
b. The judges were frequently corrupt
c. They blocked tax reform by declaring new
measures unconstitutional
d. They had close ties to the Church
e. They were carryovers from the Middle Ages
and, therefore, hopelessly out of touch with
modern politics
23. Which of the following characterized European
warfare between the Peace of Utrecht (1713)
and the outbreak of the French Revolution
(1789)?
(A) Standing armies pursuing limited strategic goals
(B) Citizen armies fighting for their native lands
(C) Feudal armies fighting for their lords
(D) Mass armies pursuing global strategies
(E) Highly mobile armies unhampered by traditional
defenses
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24. Which of the following best characterizes
eighteenth-century France just prior to the
Revolution of 1789 ?
(A)
The economic status of the peasantry was
improving dramatically.
(B)
The aristocracy’s power had eroded completely.
(C)
The privileges of the clergy were declining.
(D)
The French monarchy was experiencing a
deepening financial crisis.
(E)
The participation of the bourgeoisie in legislative affairs was increasing dramatically
25. Absolute monarchy declined in pre-1789 France
primarily because of the
(A)
growth of judicial and aristocratic
opposition
(B)
strength of peasant uprisings
(C)
increased power of the Estates-General
(D)
king’s refusal to involve France in foreign
wars
(E)
decline in the French population
26. Which of the following best describes the French
Third Estate?
(A) The palace at the Tuileries, which was the chief
royal residence after Versailles and the Louvre
(B) The nobility of the robe, who acquired noble rank
by purchase
(C) The non-noble, nonclerical section of the
Estates-General
(D) The revolutionary faction that launched the
Reign of Terror
(E) Counterrevolutionary provinces that resisted the
National Assembly
29. Which of the following best describes the French
Third Estate?
(A) The palace at the Tuileries, which was the chief
royal residence after Versailles and the Louvre
(B) The nobility of the robe, who acquired noble rank
by purchase
(C) The non-noble, nonclerical section of the
Estates-General
(D) The revolutionary faction that launched the
Reign of Terror
(E) Counterrevolutionary provinces that resisted the
National Assembly
30.The calling of the Estates-General in France by King
Louis XVI in 1789 was the direct result of:
(A) an uprising of the sans-culottes in Paris
(B) France's defeats in the Seven Years' War by Great
Britain
(C) the impact of the ideology advocated in the
American Revolution
(D) the failure of the Assembly of Notables to
endorse the monarch's program of tax reform
(E) the recommendation by the French Director
General of Finance, Jacques Necker
31. The immediate cause of the outbreak of
revolution in 1789 was
a. Grinding poverty among all classes of
society
b. Government oppression
c. The ideas of the philosophes
d. The insensitivity of Marie Antoinette
e. The government’s financial crisis
32. Louis XVI of France convened the Estates
General in 1789 for the first time in over 150 years
becausand state
e. e
a. He wanted to show support for the growing
democratic movement
b. He wanted approval to exempt the First and
Second Estates from taxation
c. He wanted approval for taxing all
landowners in the realm
d. He needed funds to help support the
American cause against the British
e. He needed a legislative body to check the
powers of Parlement of Paris
33. Which best describes the Third Estate prior to
the French Revolution?
a. it consisted of the peasantry
b. the First and Second Estates outnumbered it in
terms of population
c. it included the middle class, peasants, and urban
workers
d. it had the right to tax peasants for its own profit
e. it was an expempt for the tithe
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34. The least important impact of the American
Revolution on France was
a. providing young men with a taste of revolutionary
action and ideals
b. providing a revolutionary role model
c. providing revenge against the hated English
d. increasing burdens of the state
e. providing proof tat a republic could be created
and function
41. The Great Fear of the summer 1789
a. Politicized the urban workers of Paris
b. Catalyzed a European coalition against the
French Revolution
c. Put greater pressure on the Assembly to
enact more radical legislation
d. Strengthened the position of the nobility
e. Demonstrated the desperation of an
overtaxed peasantry
35. The list of grievances, or cahiers de doleances,
brought by the members of the Estates-Genral to
Versailles in 1789 called for
a. the immediate overthrow of Louis XVI
b. unvisersal adult suffrage
c. tax equity
d. the separation of church
e. renewal of provincial and city charters
42.When members of the Third Estate took the
Tennis Court Oath (1789) at the start of the
French Revolution, they were attempting to
A. establish a military government.
B. draft a new national constitution.
C. restore the king to power.
D. persuade Napoleon to gain power.
37. When the French people drew up cahiers(list of
grievances) in 1789 for the Estates General to
consider, which of the following would NOT have
been likely
a. The peasants wanted relief from feudal
dues
b. The bourgeoisie called for access to high
office in the military and government
c. Shopkeepers wanted an end to unnecessary
taxes on commerce
d. The nobles wanted an expansion of royal
power
e. The clergy wanted protection of monastic
lands
40. The significance of the storming of the Bastille
was that
a. It put ammunition into the hands of the
Paris crowd
b. It marked the beginning of a radical phase
of the revolution
c. It freed important leaders from prisoners
d. It demonstrated that the crowd could be
an important ally for the Assembly
e. It demonstrated that the crowd was tired of
monarchy
43.The Bastille was a symbol of royal power because
a. The king used it as his residence in Paris
b. It had housed political prisoners
c. Wheat for bread was stored there
d. It was located at Versailles
e. It was built by Louis XVI with forced labor
44.The significance of the women’s march on
Versailles on October 5, 1789 was that
a. It led to cheaper bread prices
b. It resulted in the king being brought back
to Paris
c. The leaders of the march were immediately
arrested
d. It was used by the Jacobins as justification
for the elimination of Girondists
e. It marked the only instance in which
women participated in the events of the
revolution
45. The Tennis Court Oath refers to an oath taken by
the
a. National Assembly to give France a constitution
b. monarchy of Louis XVI to squelch any hint of
possible rebellion with the utmost severity
c. National Assembly to unite all those not of noble
birth or clerical relations and represent “the people”
of France
d. monarchy of Louis XVI to bring France’s people
together as on
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46.The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
was modeled after the
a. American colonies’ Declaration of
Independence
b. Magna Carta
c. Declaration of Rights adopted by Virginia
d. Tennis Court Oath
e. American colonies’ 1787 constitiution
51.Which of these first demonstrated that popular
protest would play a role in the French
Revolution?
A. The reign of the Committee of Public
Safety.
B. The trial of Louis XIV.
C. The fall of the Bastille.
D. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
47.The result of the Tennis Court Oath was the
formation of the
a. Sans-culottes
b. Second Estate
c. Third Estate
d. National Assembly
e. Estates General
52.The “Great Fear” in the summer of 1789 was the
result in rumors that
a. The harvest was far smaller than expected
b. The great French estates were not to be
broken up and redistributed among the
peasants
c. The monarchy was about to be restored
d. Aristocrats were plotting to attack
peasants
e. French farms would be collective
48.In What is the Third Estate?, Abbe Sieyes called
for
a. The elimination of the Third Estate
b. The creation of a republic
c. The overthrow of the monarchy
d. A dominant role for commoners in French
political kllife
e. The boycott by the Third Estate of the
proceedings at Versailles
49.The decision by the representatives of the Third
Estate to declare themselves, on 17 June 1789, to be
the National Assembly of France signified
a. Their intention to form a republic
b. Their belief that political sovereignty
belonged to the nation as a whole
c. Their intention to overthrow the monarchy
d. Their belief in democracy
e. Their willingness to go to war with Germany
50.In the French Revolution, the March to Versailles
that occurred in October of 1789 illustrates
a. The conservative nature of the sansculottes
b. The power of the French army
c. The beginning of the radical phase of the
revolution
d. The fact that the crowds of Paris did not
yet look upon Louis XVI as their enemy
e. The brilliance of Napolean as a military
leader
53.Sieyes’s What is the Third Estate? Argued that
a. The clergy and the nobility contributed
little to the life of the country
b. The estates should vote by estates
c. The third estate should have the right to
vote
d. Taxes on the poor should be reduced
e. All citizens should be equal before the law
54.
The first political use of the terms “right”
and “left” was to describe the
(A) division of France into predominantly Protestant
and predominantly Roman Catholic areas
(B) seating arrangements in the French National
Assembly chamber during the French Revolution
(C) party alliances in the English House of Commons
during the debates prior to the American
Revolution
(D) two wings of the Versailles palace that housed
the Roman Catholic and the Huguenot
nobility
(B) factions in the English Parliament that supported
James II or William of Orange
55. During the Great Fear:
a. the nobility refused to make concessions to the
peasantry
b. peasants demanded the execution of Louis XVI
c. Aristocrats in Paris went into hiding
d. the liberal nobles attained new titles and wealth
e. peasants reclaimed the rights and property they
had lost to aristocratic resurgence
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56. The sequence of events that led to the French
Revolution of 1789 is best summarized by which of
the following?
(A) Lafayette’s call for democracy, royal suppression
of the National Assembly, Robespierre’s
leading
a peasant revolution
(B) Peasant uprisings, royal abdication, election of
the National Assembly
(C) Franco-Austrian war, urban riots, convening of
the Assembly of Notables
(D) Widespread famine, repression of riots, guerrilla
war
(E) Royal financial crisis, convening of the Estates
General, storming of the Bastille
57.The main purpose of the women’s march to
Versailles in October 1789 was to
(A)
provide the National Assembly and the king
with a declaration of support
(B)
protest the seizure of Louis XVI and MarieAntoinette by the National Guard
(C)
present the women’s concerns to MarieAntoinette
(D)
ensure the king’s support for the
Declaration of Rights and cheap bread for Paris
(E)
protest the lack of representation for
women in the National Assembly
.
58. Although the storming of the Bastille on July 14,
1789, is celebrated as the “start of the French
Revolution, “ the first act of revolution may have
been the resolve of the Third Estate to write a
constitution. It is of
a. The first session of the Estates General
b. The swearing of the Tennis Court Oath
c. The storming of the Tuileries
d. The forming of the National Assembly
e. The public proclamation of the Declaration
of the Rights of Man “Men are born and
remain free and equal in rights”
59. What document supporting a new order of
government has the above line as its first article?
a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The US Constitution
c. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen
d. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
e. What Is The Third Estate?
60. In the French Revolution, the March to Versailles
that occurred in October of 1789 illustrates
a. The conservative nature of the sans culottes
b. The power of the French army
c. The beginning of the radical phase of the
revolution
d. The fact that the crowds of Paris did not
yet look upon Louis XVI as their enemy
e. The brilliance of Napolean as a military
leader
61.Which of the following forced Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette to return to Paris from Versailles?
a. An assassination attempt
b. An angry mob of Parisian women
c. The fall of the Bastille
d. the Paris Parlement
e. a destructive fire set by the sans-culottes
62.The event most responsible for turning the
people of Paris against Louis XVI was
a. His attempt to flee Paris in 1791
b. His decision to execute Robespierre
c. His decision to raise taxes
d. His decision to crush the Paris Commune
e. His decision to issue the Civil Constitution of
the Clergy
63.During the French Revolution, assignats the new
paper money, were backed by
a. Church property
b. Noble property
c. Gold
d. Silver
e. Tax revenues
.64. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
a. Allied the clergy with the Assembly
b. Curbed the power of the clergy but
alienated many Catholics
c. Brought the Assembly greater support
among the Catholic population
d. Reaffirmed the central place of the Church
in the French government
e. Made Catholicism illegal in France
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65.During the French Revolution, the Civil
Constitution of the Clergy required
a. The conversion fo churches into “temples
of reason”
b. The clergy’s swearing an oath of loyalty to
the state
c. That the Church turn over its property to
the government
d. That the Church no longer collect the tithe
e. That nuns renounce their vows
66. Which of the following best describes the form of
government pursued by the National Constituent
Assembly?
a. oligarchy
b. democracy
c. dictatorship
d. constititutional monarchy
e. theocracy
67. Sieyes’ What is the Third Estate? Argued that
a. the clergy and the nobility contributed little to
the life of the country
b. the estates should vote by estates
c. the third estate should have the right to vote
d. taxes on the poor should be reduced
e. all citizens should be equal before the law
68. When members of the Third Estate took the
Tennis Court Oath (1789) at the start of the French
Revolution , they were attempting to
a. establish a military government
b. draft a new national constititution
c. restore the king
d. persuade Napolean to gain power
69. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
was modeled after the
a. American colonies’ Declaration of Independence
b. Magna Carta
c. Declaration of Rights adopted by Virginia
d. Tennis Court Oath
e. American colonies’ 1787 constitution
70. The result of the Tennis Court Oath was the
formation of the
a. sans-culottes
b. Second Estate
c. Third Estate
d. National Assembly
e. Estates General
71..During the French Revolution, emigres were
a. Members of the Jacobin group
b. Women who were denied admission to the
Convention
c. Foreigners who wanted to join the sansculottes in the Revolution
d. Aristocrats who relocated on the French
border and tried to stimulate a counterrevolution
e. Immigrants from the French colonies who
sought political refuge in France
72. They Chapelier Law in France originated during
the Revolution and remained in place for many
years. The Chapelier Law
a. Established wage and price controls
b. Made it illegal for women to participate in
political clubs
c. Declared labor unions and strikes illegal
d. Established equal taxation
e. Made all citizens equal before the law
73.The Chapelier Law
a. expunged residual feudal fees
b. put a protective tariff on wine imports
c. forbade workers’ associations
d. put an end to eccesiatical taxes
e. granted female suffrage
74. The Roman Catholic Church
a. accepted the French Revolution
b. was a driving force behind the French Revolution
c. enthusiastically supported the French Revolution
d. ignored the French Revolution
e. condemned the French Revolution
75. Which of the following caused the deepest and
most persistent internal opposition to the French
Revolution?
(A) The Great Fear
(B) The storming of the Bastille
(C) The publication of Burke’s Reflections on the
Revolution in France
(D) The advent of the Thermidorean reaction
(E) The enactment of the Civil Constitution of the
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76. The most significant impact of the Civil
Constitution of the Clergy on the course of the
French Revolution was
a. The alliance it created between the clergy
and the National Assembly
b. That it made the clergy subservient to the
state
c. That it alienated much of the Catholic
population from the revolution
d. Its reaffirmation of the central place of the
Church and the French government
e. That it made Catholicism illegal in France
77.The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
a. Allied the clergy with the Assembly
b. Curbed the power of the clergy but
alienated many Catholics
c. Brought the Assembly greater support
among the Catholic population
d. Reaffirmed the central place of the Church
in the French government
e. Made Catholicism illegal in France
78. Which of the following alienated the most
French Catholic clerics and believers?
a. The provision of freedom of religion in the
Declaration of the Rights of Man
b. The determination of the various
revolutionary governments to collect taxes
from the Third Estate
c. The seizure of church lands
d. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy
e. The abolition of monasteries
79. The event most responsible for turning the
people of Paris against Louis XVI was
a. His attempt to flee Paris in June of 1791
b. His decision to execute Robespierre
c. His decision to raise taxes
d. His decision to crush the Paris Commune
e. His decision to issue the Civil Constitution of
the Clergy
81. During the Jacobins domination of France in
1793, the government did all of the following
EXCEPT
a. Institute the metric system
b. Make all property communal
c. Change the calendar
d. Set price limits on bread
e. Attempt to move the people away from
their allegiance to Catholicism
82.The sans-cullottes
a. Were tied to the Girondists
b. Recoiled from the use of violence
c. Failed to recognized the legitimacy of the
National Guard
d. Were primarily peasants
e.Consisted of the working class people of Paris
83. In his Reflections on the Revolution in
France(1790) Edmund Burke was critical of
a. British failure to formulate an effective
response to events in France
b. The removal of Louis XVI from the throne
c. France’s inability to evolve from
constitutional monarchy to republic
d. France’s refusal to honor its national debt
e. The rapid diminishing of the authority of
the monarchy and the Church
84. Who were the sans culottes, and what was their
role in the revolution?
a. They were the bourgeois factory owners
who supported the revolution financially
b. They were the leaders of the revolution
who ran the new government
c. They were an underground political party
who supported the monarchy
d. They were poor city dwellers who added
zeal and brutality to the revolution
e. They were scholars who created a new
calendar for the republic
80. Which of the following did not contribute to the
radicalization of the French Revolution
a. Austria and Prussia’s declaration of war on
the French Republic
b. The flight to Varennes
c. Factionalization of the Assembly
d. The execution of Louis XVI
e. The rise of the sans culottes
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85. Many historians divide the French Revolution
into these three distinct stages:
a. “The Great Fear,” “The Reign of Terror” and
“The Directory”
b. The Monarchy, the Republic, the Empire
c. The radical, moderate, and the reactionary
stages
d. The moderate, the radical, and the
reactionary stages
e. The storming of the Bastille, of the Tuileries,
of the National Convention
86. All of the following are accurate EXCEPT
a. France had a nonrepresentative
government before the French Revolution
b. The Revolution destroyed the vestiges of
manorialism
c. The Revolution failed to end the legal
inequalities between the classes
d. The Revolution influenced French society to
measure status by ability rather than birth
e. The ideals of the French revolution spread
throughout Europe
87. In Thermidor
a. The nobility reasserted its power
b. France was defeated by the European
coalition
c. The French monarchy was restored
d. The sans culottes chose to govern France
directly
e. The moderate portion of the propertied
bourgeoisie reasserted its power
88. The core value of the republic of virtue created
by the revolution was
a. individual interests over the general will
b. public good over the private good
c. private good over public good
d. liberty for all
e. equality for all
89. Which of the following was not part of the
ideology embraced by Maximilian Robespierre?
a. establishment of equal rights of women
b. renunciation of self- interested politics
c. the assault on foreign and domestic enemies of
the revolution
d. embrace Christianity
e. wholehearted support of the republican
government
90. Many victims of the Reign of Terror were subject
to this “humane” form of execution
a. shooting
b. hanging
c. poisoning
d. starvation
e. guillotine
91. The Thermidorian reaction resulted in all of the
following EXCEPT
a. a pull back from the radical revolution
b. a new constititution
c. the closing of the Paris Jacobin Club
d. the reduction of the political power of the sansculottes
e. an end to political violence
92. During the French Revolution, the Thermidorean
Reaction was
a. At the beginning of the Directory
b. Year One of the Republic
c. The end of the Reign of Terror
d. The execution of Louis XVI
e. The coup d’etat of 1797
93. Which of the following events occurred during
the Directory period of the French Revolution. 17951799?
a. Napolean set up the Cisalpine Republic in
northern Italy
b. The Reign of Terror occurred
c. The Revolutionary calendar renamed the
months and days
d. France adopted the metric system
e. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were
executed
94. The phase of the French Revolution known as
“Thermidor” was characterized by
a. A reassertion of control by the nobility
b. The defeat of France by Austrian
c. The restoration of the monarchy
d. The rule of the Committee of Public Safety
e. A reassertion of control by the moderate
portion of the propertied bourgeoisie
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95. The French Reign of Terror is most closely associated
with the:
(A) women's march to Versailles
(B) establishment of the Committee of Public Safety
(C) issuance of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
(D) drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen
(E) reform of civil and criminal law
96. The Reign of Terror
a. Was necessary, according to Robespierre,
to establish a democratic republic
b. Was opposed by the Parisian crowd
c. Was aimed only at the nobility
d. Was anticlerical
e. Was worst in the countryside
97.During the French Revolution, Robespierre
asserted that terror was necessary because
a. There was no God
b. The revolution fought against genuine
tyranny
c. The aims of the revolution were virtuous
d. The people were not loyal
e. The king had betrayed the people
98. The general purpose behind the Terror was to
a. Make France a republic by eliminating
Marie Antoinette
b. Make a statement to France’s enemies
c. Eliminate any opposition to the revolution
d. Clear out the overcrowded prisons
e. Punish the clergy who refused to sign an
oath of loyalty to the revolution
99.Following the end of the Reign of Terror, the
Jacobins
a. were imprisoned
b. took control of the Republic
c. were summarily executed
d. were made to conform their views to the e.
more moderate views of the Thermidorians
were exiled
100. The founder of civic religion, the Cult of the
Supreme Being,
a. Louis XVI
b. Danton
c. Rousseau
d. Robespierre
e. Marie Antoinette
102. By the standards of the 20th century, the
slaughter of French citizens during the reign of
Terror was relatively small in number. It claimed
approximately how many victims?
a. 4 million
b. 1 million
c. 400,000
d. 40,000
e. 4,000
103. Which event occurred during the radical stage
of the French Revolution?
a. Formation of the national assembly
b. The Great Fear
c. Napolean’s military dictatorship
d. The Terror
e. The Storming of the Bastille
104. All of the following precipitated the radical turn
of the revolution EXCEPT
a. The rise of the sans culottes
b. The flight of the king
c. The division of the Assembly into factions
d. The execution of the kings
e. The outbreak of war with Austria and
Prussia
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