KS3 the french revolution - including marie antoinette

History Quiz - The French Revolution 02 (Questions)

This KS3 History quiz asks questions on the French Revolution. Money problems and new ideas about freedom combined to threaten and eventually overthrow the old French system of royal rule. Works like The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced people who would later become important in the French Revolution. In 1787, King Louis XVI organised an Assembly of Notables to seek advice on tax reforms in order to solve the financial problems of the governement. There was a lot of disagreement and the suggestion to summon an Estates General was made.

An Estates General is an assembly of representatives of the three different Estates of France - clergy, nobles and commoners. This event is considered to be the start of the French revolution. Instead of the tax reforms that the King wanted, the Estates General provided thousands of complaints.

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Louis XVI then attempted to close the Estates General but they took the Tennis Court Oath. They declared themselves to be the National Assembly with the aim of establishing a government in place of the absolute power of the king. They adopted the Rights of Man, abolished feudalism and set up a parliament.

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Which philosopher encouraged change in France?

[ ]	Arthur Rimbaud
[ ]	Immanuel Kant
[ ]	Jean Jacques Rousseau
[ ]	Jean-Paul Sartre

Between 1787 and 1789 France suffered from what?

[ ]	Earthquakes
[ ]	Mass immigration
[ ]	Poor harvests
[ ]	All the above

Which of these was not a result of the bad harvests?

[ ]	More work at the ports as food was brought from abroad
[ ]	Smaller incomes for farmers and peasants
[ ]	The price of food increased
[ ]	Townspeople unemployed as farm workers could not afford to buy their goods

What type of people were described as 'bourgeois'?

[ ]	Middle-class
[ ]	Noblemen
[ ]	Peasants
[ ]	Priests

May 1789 saw the King meet with which group?

[ ]	Catholic Council
[ ]	Estates-General
[ ]	Farmers' Union
[ ]	Royal Advisory Committee

What was the unit of currency in France at that time?

[ ]	The Cahier
[ ]	The Cent
[ ]	The Livre
[ ]	The Poivre

It has been said that the Estates-General meeting failed partly because Louis was more concerned with what?

[ ]	His dying son
[ ]	Planning his summer holiday
[ ]	The state of his marriage
[ ]	The upkeep of the Royal palaces

Those who wanted extreme change were called .......

[ ]	Communists
[ ]	Radicals
[ ]	Saboteurs
[ ]	Terrorists

What 'parliament' was set up in June 1789?

[ ]	Estates Council
[ ]	French Junta
[ ]	National Assembly
[ ]	Versailles Committee

10.

The National Assembly drew up a .......

[ ]	Consternation
[ ]	Constipation
[ ]	Constitution
[ ]	Consubstantiation

History Quiz - The French Revolution 02 (Answers)

Which philosopher encouraged change in France?

[ ]	Arthur Rimbaud
[ ]	Immanuel Kant
[x]	Jean Jacques Rousseau
[ ]	Jean-Paul Sartre

His influential book 'The Social Contract' was written in 1762

Between 1787 and 1789 France suffered from what?

[ ]	Earthquakes
[ ]	Mass immigration
[x]	Poor harvests
[ ]	All the above

This, along with high taxes, helped spark the unrest

Which of these was not a result of the bad harvests?

[x]	More work at the ports as food was brought from abroad
[ ]	Smaller incomes for farmers and peasants
[ ]	The price of food increased
[ ]	Townspeople unemployed as farm workers could not afford to buy their goods

The majority of people were affected in a negative way

What type of people were described as 'bourgeois'?

[x]	Middle-class
[ ]	Noblemen
[ ]	Peasants
[ ]	Priests

The French Revolution is often seen as being anti-bourgeois, however many supporters of the Revolution were middle-class merchants and traders

May 1789 saw the King meet with which group?

[ ]	Catholic Council
[x]	Estates-General
[ ]	Farmers' Union
[ ]	Royal Advisory Committee

This was the first time it had been summoned since 1614. It turned out to be a big mistake for the King as this led directly to his overthrow and execution

What was the unit of currency in France at that time?

[ ]	The Cahier
[ ]	The Cent
[x]	The Livre
[ ]	The Poivre

France's total debt was about 4,000 million livres!

It has been said that the Estates-General meeting failed partly because Louis was more concerned with what?

[x]	His dying son
[ ]	Planning his summer holiday
[ ]	The state of his marriage
[ ]	The upkeep of the Royal palaces

If that is true then he perhaps did not concentrate enough on what was happening

Those who wanted extreme change were called .......

[ ]	Communists
[x]	Radicals
[ ]	Saboteurs
[ ]	Terrorists

Some radicals use non-violent methods to get things to change but others resort to violence

What 'parliament' was set up in June 1789?

[ ]	Estates Council
[ ]	French Junta
[x]	National Assembly
[ ]	Versailles Committee

They believed in the Rights of Man - Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights

10.

The National Assembly drew up a .......

[ ]	Consternation
[ ]	Constipation
[x]	Constitution
[ ]	Consubstantiation

It set out how the country was to be ruled