The Following Is an Excerpt from "What Is the Third

question 28

Multiple Choice

The following is an excerpt from "What Is the Third Estate?" by the abbé Sieyès (Evaluating the Evidence 19.2) : "It is impossible to say what place the two privileged orders [the clergy and the nobility] ought to occupy in the social order: this is the equivalent of asking what place one wishes to assign to a malignant tumor that torments and undermines the strength of the body of a sick person. It must be neutralized. We must re-establish the health and working of all organs so thoroughly that they are no longer susceptible to these fatal schemes that are capable of sapping the most essential principles of vitality."
What did Sieyès imply in this passage?

• A)That the First and Second Estates were France's natural leaders
• B)That it was too early to tell what place First and Second Estates would have in the new France
• C)That social divisions based on privilege had no place in the new France
• D)That all members of the First and Second Estates should be killed