Revolution!
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Voting in Church elections
No land
Governmental financial mismanagement
High taxes
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Madame de Pompadour
Cardinal Richelieu
Jacques Necker
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Reign of Terror
Storming of the Bastille
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Vendée
Strasbourg
Lyon
Carcassone
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
During the “Reign of Terror”
1. Mass executions
2. Iconoclasm
3. Birth restrictions
4. “Cult of Reason”
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Voting in Church elections
No land
Governmental financial mismanagement
High taxes
•
The lack of a clergy vote, although
problematic, was NOT one of the
causations of the French Revolution
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Madame de Pompadour
Cardinal Richelieu
Jacques Necker
•
Jacques Necker was a Minister of Finance, but
not an “advisor” or “influence” to the King. The
rest (Colbert  Louis XIV; Pompadour 
Louis XV; Richelieu  Louis XIII) are heavy
influencers…
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Reign of Terror
Storming of the Bastille
•
The “Reign of Terror” did NOT occur
before the “Declaration” and the creation
of a “new state”. The others did.
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
1.
2.
3.
4.
Vendée
Strasbourg
Lyon
Carcassone
•
Strasbourg (Eastern France) was not a
“focus” of the “Terror”. The others, as
they were places of rebellion, were.
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
During the “Reign of Terror”
1. Mass executions
2. Iconoclasm
3. Birth restrictions
4. “Cult of Reason”
•
There were no evident “birth restrictions”
during the “Terror”. Mass executions, yes.
“Iconoclasm” and the destruction of church
property, yes. The “Cult of Reason” attempted
to replace religion with science.
1. Which of the following countries allied
itself with France during the Seven Years’
War in major reversal of alliances that
historians call the “Diplomatic
Revolution”?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Prussia
Great Britain
Austria
The Dutch Republic
2. Which of the following did not contribute
to the French fiscal crisis?
a. Debt accumulated by French supporting the
American War of Independence
b. A taxation system that exempted the nobility
and clergy from most taxes
c. The lack of a national bank to help raise
loans for the government
d. The tax exemption of the Third Estate, which
represented most of the people of France
3. On the eve of the French Revolution in 1787,
the French monarchy
a. was clearly willing to replace absolutist power with a
constitutionalist system
b. was seriously disadvantaged, and most
Enlightenment thinkers pointed to France as a
country ripe for revolution.
c. was actively resisting reform and was becoming
less “enlightened” in its approach to state power
d. appeared to be secure in its power and had
reestablished its prestige after its humiliating defeat
in the Seven Year’s War
4. Which of the following did not lead to the
attack on the Bastille?
a. Louis XVI’s firing of Jacques Necker, his financial
minister
b. The marching of thousands of troops toward Paris
by order of the king
c. Fears of a plot by the king to arrest and disperse the
members of the National Assembly
d. The massacre by Louis XVI’s troops of members of
the National Assembly
5. On what change was Louis XVI executed
in 1793?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Tyranny
Treason
Murder
Attempting to escape France
6. The Thermidorian Reaction was the…
a. period of extreme violence in Vendee in
which thousands of suspects dissenters
were killed by supporters of Robespierre
b. revolt of the rural peasantry against the
Revolution
c. abolition of the Convention by the
Committee of Public Safety
d. period in which the Convention turned
against Robespierre and his regime of
Terror, effectively ending it
7. Who were the sans-culottes?
a. Leaders of the Revolution
b. Rural opponents of the Revolution who
sided with the king
c. The name for members of the new,
revolutionary French army
d. Ordinary citizens of Paris, mainly skilled
artisans and their families
8. Who was the chief proponent of the
Terror and unofficial head of Committee
of Public Safety?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Georges-Jacques Danton
Maximililen Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean-Paul Marat
9. Which event effectively ended the French
Revolution?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s coming to power
The execution of Louis XVI
The fall of Robespierre
The adoption of the Constitution
10. Which king’s increased repressive
policies sparked another revolution in
France in 1830?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Louis XVIII
Frederick VII
Charles X
Louis-Philippe
1. Which of the following countries allied
itself with France during the Seven Years’
War in major reversal of alliances that
historians call the “Diplomatic
Revolution”?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Prussia
Great Britain
Austria
The Dutch Republic
2. Which of the following did NOT
contribute to the French fiscal crisis?
a. Debt accumulated by French supporting the
American War of Independence
b. A taxation system that exempted the nobility
and clergy from most taxes
c. The lack of a national bank to help raise
loans for the government
d. The tax exemption of the Third Estate, which
represented most of the people of France
3. On the eve of the French Revolution in 1787,
the French monarchy
a. was clearly willing to replace absolutist power with a
constitutionalist system
b. was seriously disadvantaged, and most
Enlightenment thinkers pointed to France as a
country ripe for revolution.
c. was actively resisting reform and was becoming
less “enlightened” in its approach to state power
d. appeared to be secure in its power and had
reestablished its prestige after its humiliating defeat
in the Seven Year’s War
4. Which of the following did NOT lead to the
attack on the Bastille?
a. Louis XVI’s firing of Jacques Necker, his financial
minister
b. The marching of thousands of troops toward Paris
by order of the king
c. Fears of a plot by the king to arrest and disperse the
members of the National Assembly
d. The massacre by Louis XVI’s troops of members of
the National Assembly
5. On what change was Louis XVI executed
in 1793?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Tyranny
Treason
Murder
Attempting to escape France
6. The Thermidorian Reaction was the…
a. period of extreme violence in Vendee in
which thousands of suspects dissenters
were killed by supporters of Robespierre
b. revolt of the rural peasantry against the
Revolution
c. abolition of the Convention by the
Committee of Public Safety
d. period in which the Convention turned
against Robespierre and his regime of
Terror, effectively ending it
7. Who were the sans-culottes?
a. Leaders of the Revolution
b. Rural opponents of the Revolution who
sided with the king
c. The name for members of the new,
revolutionary French army
d. Ordinary citizens of Paris, mainly skilled
artisans and their families
8. Who was the chief proponent of the
Terror and unofficial head of Committee
of Public Safety?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Georges-Jacques Danton
Maximililen Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean-Paul Marat
9. Which event effectively ended the French
Revolution?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s coming to power
The execution of Louis XVI
The fall of Robespierre
The adoption of the Constitution
10. Which king’s increased repressive
policies sparked another revolution in
France in 1830?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Louis XVIII
Frederick VII
Charles X
Louis-Philippe