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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) Give up representation in the National Assembly
B) Renounce the pope
C) Swear loyalty to the king
D) Swear an oath to the Constitution and new French government
  • 2. Which regions were least likely to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
A) Paris and the surrounding area
B) The Loire Valley
C) Mostly French-speaking regions
D) Regions on the periphery
  • 3. How did Pope Pius VI react to the Civil Constitution?
A) He ordered members of the clergy in France to take the oath
B) He approved of it
C) He did not give his opinion
D) He ordered members of the clergy in France not to take the oath
  • 4. What was meant by the term "bourgeoisie"?
A) The head of a guild
B) A wealthy, non-noble resident of a city
C) The poor
D) A member of the nobility
  • 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) People became more religious
B) People began to question religious teachings
C) The French people broke away from Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church
D) France created its own religion
  • 8. Which of the following authors developed the idea of the "social contract"?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Edmund Burke
C) Baron de Montesquieu
D) John Locke
  • 9. Which of the following authors wrote, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains”?
A) John Locke
B) Baron de Montesquieu
C) Edmund Burke
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 10. What were the colors of the French revolution?
A) Blue, white, and red
B) Blue and white
C) Red and white
D) Red and blue
  • 11. Which color(s) represented France, specifically Paris?
A) Both a & b
B) Blue
C) White
D) Red
  • 12. Which color(s) represented the “nation” of France?
A) Red
B) Blue
C) White
D) Both a & b
  • 13. Revolutionaries began wearing what symbol to show their support?
A) the tricolour cockade
B) culottes
C) berets
D) green pins
  • 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) Austria
B) Germany
C) Great Britian
D) Prussia
  • 16. Jacques-Louis David became famous for a style of art known as
A) Rococo
B) Romanticism
C) Neoclassicism
D) Impressionism
  • 17. The artist who became famous for capturing everyday French middle class life was
A) Louis-Leopold
B) Claude Monet
C) Jacques-Louis David
D) Eugene Delacroix
  • 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 exercised power over the king
D) She spent extravagantly
  • 19. The physiocrats were
A) French people who moved to Austria
B) A group of nobles who advocated ending the monarchy
C) A group of Protestant priests
D) Economic reformers who advocated a single tax on soil
  • 20. Jacques Necker became famous throughout France for what?
A) Abolishing the parlements
B) Being exiled to Switzerland
C) Publishing a report on the French government’s finances
D) Fighting with the Americans
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