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World History: High School: 9th and 10th Grade Quiz - The French Revolution 2 (Questions)

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Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution. Money problems and new ideas about freedom combined to threaten the old French system of royal rule. Your History teacher will have taught you about the French Revolution.

Test your knowledge with this second quiz on the subject.

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
[ ]	Widespread strikes

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

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

World History: High School: 9th and 10th Grade Quiz - The French Revolution 2 (Answers)

Which philosopher encouraged change in France?

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

In his 1762 book 'The Social Contract'

Between 1787 and 1789 France suffered from what?

[ ]	Earthquakes
[ ]	Mass immigration
[x]	Poor harvests
[ ]	Widespread strikes

This, along with high taxes, helped spark the unrest