Quiz: What Is the Third Estate?

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What does Sieyès say must be done with the privileged class, the “malignant humour” in the body of the nation? It must be given a separate chamber It must be neutralised It must be given a third of the votes It must be bought out
2. Whose work is the constitution, according to chapter 5? The Estates-General The King The ordinary legislative body The constituent power of the nation
3. To what does Sieyès compare the claim that two hundred thousand privileged should make two-thirds of the common will? Putting the cart before the horse Asking the wolf to guard the sheep Maintaining that two and two make five Building a house on sand
4. What does the old nobility require of new nobles before letting them sit with it? A royal letter of admission Proof of four generations and a hundred years Payment of a heavy fee to the order Service as an army officer
5. What does Sieyès call an Estates-General dominated by the privileged? An assembly of notables A clerico-nobili-judicial assembly A cour plénière A chamber of peers on the English model
6. What characterises the third period in the formation of a political society? Conquest by a foreign people The play of individual wills The action of the real common will Government by proxy
7. Which kind of interest does Sieyès consider the great danger in a national assembly? Corporate interest Common interest National interest Personal interest
8. According to Sieyès’s reading of French history, who has really reigned in France? The provincial estates The parlements The King alone The court
9. According to the plan of the work, what has the Third Estate been until now in the political order? Everything One third of the nation Something Nothing
10. If the Third Estate alone cannot form the Estates-General, what does Sieyès say it will form? A National Convention A Chamber of Commons A cour plénière A National Assembly

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