French Revolution

Question 1

Last time Estates General assembly assembled before 1789

Answer 1

1614

Question 2

Louis XVI ascends to throne of France

Answer 2

1774

Question 3

Third estate assembles in indoor tennis court in Versailles and establishes Nation Assembly

Answer 3

20 June 1789

Question 4

Demolition of Bastille

Answer 4

14 July 1789

Question 5

Feudal system of taxes and obligations abolished

Answer 5

4 August 1789

Question 6

Women march to Versailles to bring Louis XVI back to Paris

Answer 6

5 October 1789

Question 7

Abolition of censorship

Answer 7

1789

Question 8

National Assembly finishes draft of constitution

Answer 8

1791

Question 9

Olympe de Gouges writes ‘Declaration of Rights of Woman and Citizen’

Answer 9

1791

Question 10

National Assembly declares war against Prussia and Austria

Answer 10

April 1792

Question 11

Palace of Tuilereis stormed, Louis XVI taken hostage

Answer 11

10 August 1792

Question 12

Jacobin Convention declares France a republic: monarchy abolished

Answer 12

21 September 1792

Question 13

Louis XVI executed publicly at Place de la Concorde on charges of treason

Answer 13

21 January 1793

Question 14

Reign of Terror

Answer 14

1793-1794

Question 15

Olympe de Gouges executed

Answer 15

1793

Question 16

Jacobin Convention frees all slaves in French overseas possessions

Answer 16

1794

Question 17

Maximilian Robespierre convicted, arrested and executed

Answer 17

July 1794

Question 18

Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

Answer 18

1804

Question 19

Napoleon reintroduces slavery

Answer 19

1804

Question 20

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

Answer 20

1815

Question 21

Slavery finally abolished

Answer 21

1848

Question 22

Women in France FINALLY get the right to vote

Answer 22

1946

Question 23

Louis XVI calls assembly of Estates General

Answer 23

5 May 1789

Question 24

Who wrote Two Treatsies of Government?

Answer 24

John Locke

Question 25

Who proposed a government based on social contract, wrote The Social Contract and gave idea of 1 member 1 vote

Answer 25

Jean Rosseau

Question 26

Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws, gave ideas of an executive, legislative and judiciary (model put force into USA after independence)?

Answer 26

Montesquieu

Question 27

Who led the people who assembled in the indoor tennis court?

Answer 27

Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes

Question 28

Broken chain represents?

Answer 28

Freedom.

Question 29

Bundle of rods represent?

Answer 29

Unity.

Question 30

All-seeing eye represents?

Answer 30

Knowledge.

Question 31

Sceptre represents?

Answer 31

Royal power.

Question 32

Snake-ring represents?

Answer 32

Eternity.

Question 33

Red Phrygian Cap represents?

Answer 33

Freedom.

Question 34

Blue, White, Red represent?

Answer 34

Colors of France

Question 35

Winged-woman represents?

Answer 35

Personification of Law

Question 36

The Law Tablet represents?

Answer 36

That law is same for all.

Question 37

Leader of Jacobins Club?

Answer 37

Maximilian Robespierre

Question 38

Englishman who travelled France from 1787-89?

Answer 38

Arthur Young

Question 39

Person who wrote to his friend in 1793 about how he couldn’t get any good jobs because he was from the third estate?

Answer 39

Georges Danton