1. What privileges did clergy and nobility enjoy in the Old Regime?
2. What were the grievances of the bourgeoisie, the peasantry, and the urban laborers?
3. Why was France in financial difficulty?
4. Why do some historians regard the French Revolution as a bourgeois revolution? How do revisionists dispute this view?
5. Identify and explain the significance of the following: the formation of the National Assembly; the storming of the Bastille, the Great Fear, and the October Days.
6. What was the nature and significance of the reforms passed by the National Assembly?
7. What were the grievances of the sans-culottes?
8. Identify and explain the significance of the following: the flight of Louis XVI, the Brunswick manifesto, and the September Massacres.
9. What were the principal differences between the Jacobins and Girondins?
10. What were the accomplishments of the Jacobins?
11. How did Robespierre justify the Terror? What meaning can you ascribe to the Terror?
12. Why was the French Revolution a decisive period in the shaping of the West?