Which of the following is a power held by the French president?
a. borrow money
b. veto bills passed by the National Assembly
c. appoint the prime minister
d. dismiss parliament
Q. 2Which French party is the most anti-immigrant, going so far as to advocate deportation of Muslims?
a. Socialists
b. Communists
c. Union for Popular Majority
d. National Front
Q. 3According to Crane Brinton, which of the following is the last stage of revolution?
a. Intellectuals become dissatisfied with the system.
b. A Thermidor occurs.
c. Moderates seize power.
d. Extremists take over.
Q. 4Which of the following contributed to the French Revolution?
a. an economic downturn during the eighteenth century
b. the assassination of Napolon Bonaparte
c. requiring the Third Estate to meet separately from the First and Second Estates
d. increased economic and political expectations arising from political reforms
Q. 5Which of the following French philosophers claimed that checks and balances in government can ensure that liberty is preserved?
a. Montesquieu
b. Rousseau
c. Voltaire
d. Thucydides
Q. 6Voltaire's writings epitomized __________, which was an eighteenth-century philosophical movement that advocated reason and tolerance rather than blind religious rule.
a. revolution
b. the Enlightenment
c. democracy
d. clericalism