Chapter 8 and 9 quiz

all of the following are true of enlightened despotism except

it emphasized that the monarchy was on the whole nostalgic and backward-looking

the declaration of the rights of man and citizen was significant because it proclaimed all of the following except

taxes could be raised only by the king

The enlightenment of the 18th century referred to

the belief that europe had emerged from a time of barbarism and darkness

the old regime of pre-1789 europe consisted of three estates

the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else

the organized appointed in 1793 by the french convneton to conduct the government of france was named

the committe of public safety

the organized appointed in 1793 by the french convneton to conduct the governmentof frnce was named

the committe of public safety

the 1790 civil constitution of the clergy provided for all of the following except

the funding of each clergyman's salary by his parish

the oath of the tennis court was

a virtual assumption of national sovereignty by the third estate and its supporters

frederick the great did all of the following except

abolish serfdom throughout his kingdom

during the reign of terror

about 40,000 people, mostly peasants and laborers were executed

Montesquieu's influential doctrine of the separation and balance of powers suggested that good goverment could be obtained by

all of the above

in france the noble owner of a manor retained certain rights from the feudal age, including

all of the above

when in september 1788 the noble-controlled parlement of paris ruled hat the forth coming estates general should meet as three separate orders, the third esate saw this as

an unprovoked class insult by the nobility against it

the committee of public safety did all of the following except

launch a program to suppress christianity in france

all of the following are true about eighteenth century freemasonry except

masons attributed little importance to mysterious rituals and the occult

one of the reasons that the french revolution was so significant was that, unlike the revolutions of Russia and china and twentieth century it

occurred in what was in many ways the most advanced country of its day

Voltaire's famous polemical slogan "Crush the infamous things referred to

religious bigotry and superstition

Adam Smith's wealth of nations argued for

the reduction of barriers that hindered economic growth

the partitions of poland symbolized all of the following except

the triumph of polish nationalism and reform efforts

Rousseau's ideas included all of the following except

the true and only possible expression of the general will is a democracy

the eighteenth century philosophes were a group of writers who

were popularizers and publicists