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What caused the French Revolution? In two words, extreme inequality. Dressed in lavish clothing, the royal family relaxed while munching on banquets at their palace in Versailles. Meanwhile, France was almost completely out of money. In the streets, the French people were beginning to starve.
In addition to the king's absurd amount of luxury, other social and class . . . issues inspired his overthrow. Before the revolution, France's society was officially broken up into three social classes, which together comprised the Estates-General. The First Estate was made up of members of the clergy, or church leaders. Nobility and royalty comprised the Second Estate. These were the people who were lucky enough to be born into very wealthy French families. The Third Estate included the bourgeoisie, or middle class, and peasants. But here was the problem: The top two estates were just 2% of the population, and the bourgeoisie and peasants made up 98 percent. This meant that for every 100 people in France, two were wealthy and 98 were middle class or poor.
_______Which of the following was true of French society in the years before the French Revolution?
A) The king deeply understood the hardships of the French people.
B) Most people were part of the First and Second Estate
C) There were more wealthy people than poor people
D) The Third Estate made up the majority of the population

The Third Estate consisted of the bourgeoisie, which is the French word for "middle class" more or less. Or you can consider this the working class. Peasants were also included in this group as well. Basically if you weren't very wealthy or part of the church as a clergy, then you were in the Third Estate. As the very last part of the passage says "the bourgeoisie and peasants made up 98 percent". Overwhelmingly, the population of France was in the Third Estate. So that's why choice D is the answer.

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Choice A is not true because the wealthy upper classes were very disconnected from the starving people. If the king did understand their hardships, then perhaps the king would have helped his people to avoid a revolution in the first place. Marie Antoinette famously is quoted to say "let them eat cake" when she was told people were starving from lack of bread. Here "cake" doesn't necessarily mean birthday cake, but rather just a higher end luxury bread. Such a bread would only be available to the very wealthy, so it's just one very glaring example showing how out of touch the upper class was.

Choice B is false since it contradicts choice D, mentioned above. Choice C is a similar story.

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Answer:D. Members of the Third Estate were dissatisfied with social and economic inequality.

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