French Revolution, Russian Revolution

18^th century French society was divided into:

four Estates
two Estates
three Estates
castes

Which of the following believed social position must depend on merit?

Workers
Middle class
Nobility
Peasants

Who advocated government based on Social Contract?

Rousseau
Darwin
Montesquieu
Spencer

Division of power within the government was put forth In:

'Le Moniteur Universal'
'The Spirit of the Laws'
'Two Treaties of Government'
'The Social Contract'

Society based on freedom, equal laws and opportunities was advocated by:

philosophers such as John Locke and Rousseau
clergy and nobility
middle class and people of the Third Estate
Englishmen Georges Danton and Arthur Young

Storming of the Bastille:

14^th June, 1798
14^th July, 1789
14^th July, 1798
14^th June, 1789

Which of the following refuted the doctrine of divine and absolute right?

Montesquieu
John Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau

Which of the following constituted the privileged class?

Peasants and nobility
Clergy and nobility
Clergy and peasants
First and Third Estate

The most important of the privileges enjoyed by the clergy and nobility:

participate in wars
exemption from taxes to the state
right to collect dues
ownership of land

The Bastille symbolised:

armed might of France
despotic power of the king
prestige and power
benevolence of the king