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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) Swear an oath to the Constitution and new French government
C) Swear loyalty to the king
D) Renounce the pope
  • 2. Which regions were least likely to support the Civil Constitution of the Clergy?
A) Mostly French-speaking regions
B) Regions on the periphery
C) The Loire Valley
D) Paris and the surrounding area
  • 3. How did Pope Pius VI react to the Civil Constitution?
A) He ordered members of the clergy in France not to take the oath
B) He did not give his opinion
C) He approved of it
D) He ordered members of the clergy in France to take the oath
  • 4. What was meant by the term "bourgeoisie"?
A) A member of the nobility
B) The head of a guild
C) The poor
D) A wealthy, non-noble resident of a city
  • 5. Which of the following groups was most responsible for starting the French Revolution?
A) General Lafayette and the army
B) The clergy
C) Peasants in Paris
D) The bourgeoisie
  • 6. Which of the following movements influenced the French Revolution? a.
    The Second Great Awakening
A) The Catholic Reformation
B) The Glorious Revolution
C) The Second Great Awakening
D) The Enlightenment
  • 7. How did the Enlightenment impact religion in France?
A) The French people broke away from Catholicism and joined the Anglican Church
B) People became more religious
C) France created its own religion
D) People began to question religious teachings
  • 8. Which of the following authors developed the idea of the "social contract"?
A) Baron de Montesquieu
B) Edmund Burke
C) John Locke
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 9. Which of the following authors wrote, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains”?
A) Baron de Montesquieu
B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C) Edmund Burke
D) John Locke
  • 10. What were the colors of the French revolution?
A) Red and blue
B) Blue, white, and red
C) Red and white
D) Blue and white
  • 11. Which color(s) represented France, specifically Paris?
A) Blue
B) Red
C) White
D) Both a & b
  • 12. Which color(s) represented the “nation” of France?
A) Both a & b
B) Blue
C) Red
D) White
  • 13. Revolutionaries began wearing what symbol to show their support?
A) green pins
B) culottes
C) the tricolour cockade
D) berets
  • 14. How were newspapers different in the 18th century from today?
A) Newspapers were free in the 18th century
B) Newspapers had no advertisements in the 18th century
C) More people could read in the 18th century than today
D) Newspapers did not try to be objective in the 18th century
  • 15. Marie Antoinette was from which European country?
A) Germany
B) Prussia
C) Great Britian
D) Austria
  • 16. Jacques-Louis David became famous for a style of art known as
A) Impressionism
B) Rococo
C) Neoclassicism
D) Romanticism
  • 17. The artist who became famous for capturing everyday French middle class life was
A) Claude Monet
B) Louis-Leopold
C) Eugene Delacroix
D) Jacques-Louis David
  • 18. Marie Antoinette was not popular with the people because
A) She excluded many of the old noble families from court
B) All of the above
C) She exercised power over the king
D) She spent extravagantly
  • 19. The physiocrats were
A) Economic reformers who advocated a single tax on soil
B) A group of nobles who advocated ending the monarchy
C) French people who moved to Austria
D) A group of Protestant priests
  • 20. Jacques Necker became famous throughout France for what?
A) Publishing a report on the French government’s finances
B) Abolishing the parlements
C) Being exiled to Switzerland
D) Fighting with the Americans
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