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The French Revolution Quiz: Causes, Key Events and Figures

by Quizhat · 12 questions · Updated · CC BY

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A revision quiz on the French Revolution, from the Bastille to Napoleon's coup, for middle school and early high school students. 12 questions, about 5 minutes.

Also available in: German, Spanish, French

Quiz questions

Question 1 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

In which year was the Bastille stormed in Paris?

  • 1776
  • 1789
  • 1799
  • 1815

Question 2 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

Which social order made up the vast majority of the population in the Estates General?

  • The Third Estate
  • The clergy
  • The nobility
  • The royal court

Question 3 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

What is the name of the document approved in August 1789 that proclaimed the liberty and equality of citizens?

  • Albertine Statute
  • Napoleonic Code
  • Magna Carta
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Question 4 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

What did the deputies of the Third Estate swear in the Tennis Court in June 1789?

  • To abolish the monarchy
  • To march on the Bastille
  • Not to separate until France had a constitution
  • To pay off the state's debt

Question 5 · True / False · 20s · 1 pt

King Louis XVI was sentenced to death and guillotined in January 1793.

  • True
  • False

Question 6 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

Which politician was the dominant figure of the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror?

  • Maximilien Robespierre
  • Georges Danton
  • Jean-Paul Marat
  • Lafayette

Question 7 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

In which year was the First French Republic proclaimed?

  • 1789
  • 1795
  • 1804
  • 1792

Question 8 · Multiple choice · 20s · 1 pt

Which of the following were among the causes of the French Revolution?

  • A severe financial crisis of the state
  • Defeat in the Thirty Years' War
  • The spread of Enlightenment ideas
  • The discovery of America

Question 9 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

Which military song of 1792 became the French national anthem?

  • The Song of the Italians
  • La Marseillaise
  • La Carmagnole
  • Ça ira

Question 10 · True / False · 20s · 1 pt

On the night of 4 August 1789 the Assembly abolished feudal privileges.

  • True
  • False

Question 11 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

Which general seized power in the coup of 18 Brumaire (1799)?

  • Louis XVIII
  • Jean-Baptiste Kléber
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 12 · Single choice · 20s · 1 pt

What was the motto of the French Revolution?

  • God, country, family
  • Peace, land, bread
  • Liberty, equality, fraternity
  • Order and progress

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