| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What French king was beheaded in 1793? | Louis XVI | 88%
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| What French queen was beheaded in 1793? | Marie Antoinette | 84%
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| When the 1st and 2nd Estates needed money, they taxed the _________ estate. | 3rd | 82%
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| What prison was stormed in 1789? | Bastille | 82%
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| What is name of the period (1793 - 94) in which thousands were executed? | The Reign of {Terror} | 82%
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| The city where most of it happened | Paris | 81%
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| What did that queen supposedly say that people should eat if they had no bread? | Cake | 80%
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| Who became "First Consul" in 1799, then Emperor? | Napoleon Bonaparte | 80%
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| What device was invented to behead people? | Guillotine | 79%
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| A government ruled by a king or a queen | Monarchy | 78%
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| France was out of money after helping the __________ Revolution | American | 77%
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| What revolutionary motto from 1790 is still the national motto of France? | Liberté, egalité, {fraternité} | 77%
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| Marie Antoinette's home country | Austria | 76%
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| After the revolution, Napoleon ruled as _________ | Emperor | 75%
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| Clergy = officials working for the _______ | church | 74%
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| Who led the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? | Maximilien Robespierre | 74%
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| What palace was mobbed by peasant women looking for food? | Versailles | 74%
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| What does "fraternity" mean? | Brotherhood | 73%
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| In which decade did most of the French Revolution occur? | 1790 | 71%
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| The three social classes were called "The Three _________" | Estates | 71%
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| On what day of the year was that prison attacked? | July 14 | 70%
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| The 3rd estate wanted less _______ | tax | 67%
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| What class comprised the "third estate" prior to the revolution? | Commoners | 66%
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| Who did the "second estate" include? | Nobility | 66%
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| What class comprised the "first estate" prior to the revolution? | Clergy | 61%
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| A widespread food shortage | famine | 61%
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| What organization led France during the terror? | Committee of Public {Safety} | 59%
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| A group of peasant ____________ invaded the Palace in Versailles looking for grain. | women | 51%
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| Napoleon used this same title as the "Presidents" of the Roman Republic | consul | 49%
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| What Charles Dickens novel is set in London and Paris during the time of the French Revolution? | A Tale of Two Cities | 48%
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| When the king refused to meet, the people met without him at the | Tennis Court | 45%
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