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British responses to the French Revolution

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “British responses to the French Revolution”, from the unit “The French Revolution: How did Europe respond to the French Revolution?” (Year 8 History) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. Put these time periods into the correct chronological order.
  2. During the Scientific Revolution of the 1500s, which of these people challenged the teachings of the Church by explaining that the Earth revolved around the Sun, rather than the other way around?
  3. Which of the following thinkers do we class as belonging to the Enlightenment movement of the 1700s?
  4. Match the events with the year they took place
  5. What word is used to describe a country without a monarch?
  6. What effect did revolutions that were happening all around the world have on monarchs in the 1700s and 1800s?
  7. Which laws were brought in by the British government due to discontent caused by the French Revolution?
  8. Was Edmund Burke for or against the spread of French revolutionary radical ideas?
  9. Match the British political thinker to the pamphlet that they wrote.
  10. In what year did the French people execute their king, Louis XVI?
  11. Which group in French society broke away from the Estates-General and launched the French Revolution in 1789?
  12. Which of these British political thinkers wanted to encourage the spread of radical revolutionary ideas from France to Britain?

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