Multiple Choice Questions - MCQs 8.

What the term 'Old Regime’ used in France,

is referred to?
1. Which of the following is the meaning of (a) It describes the society and institutions of
‘people’s miltia’? France before
(a) An army raised by the common people. 1789.
(b) An army raised by a private group of people (b) It refers to the society and institutions of
to resist an authority. France after
(c) A gathering of the common people who take 1789.
arm to oppose or revolt against an authority. (c) It refers to the society and institutions of the
(d) A gathering of the common people who fights France after demolition of Bastile.
against another such gathering. (d) It refers to the society and institutions of
France in the early nineteenth century.
2. Which of the following is true about
‘Bastile’? 9. Which estates in France were exempted
(a) It was a fortress prison in France. from paying taxes?
(b) Usually people hated Bastile. (a) The first estate (clergy)
(c) It stood for despotic power of the king. (b) The second estate (nobility)
(d) All of the above. (c) Both the first and second estates
(d) The third estate (businessmen, artisans,
3. Why were the most people rioting in Paris peasants)
and the countryside?
(a) They were protesting against the atrocities of 10. What were the works not assigned to the
the police officials. peasants, in France in 18th century?
(b) They were protesting against the high price of (a) To render services to the nobles.
bread. (b) To serve in the schools as teachers.
(c) They were protesting against the fall of Bastille. (c) To work in the houses and fields of nobles.
(d) They were protesting against the selling of (d) To participate in building roads.
fragments of demolished Bastile in the market.
11. Which, of the following taxes was imposed
4. When did Louis XVI ascend the thorne of by the Church or peasants in 18th Century
France? France?
(a) In 1789 (b) In 1774 (a) Taille
(c) In 1889 (d) In 1874 (b) Tilma
(c) Tithes
5. Which family did Louis XVI belong to? (d) Taitith
(a) Benerick family (b) Benson family
(c) Bourbon family (d) Barbeck family 12. Which of the following direct taxes was
collected from the peasants in 18th
6. Which of the following did not form the Century France?
three estates of the French Society in the (a) Taille
18th century? (b) Tithes
(a) Clergy (c) Tenthes
(b) Nobility (d) Tuax
(c) King
(d) Businessmen and peasants 13. What was the reason of empty treasury in
17'74 when Louis XVI became the King
7. Which of the following estates paid taxes in (a) Because France fought long years of wars.
the 18th century French Society? (b) Because the Government was extravagant in
(a) The members of first estate. maintaining the court at the palace of Versailles.
(b) The members of the third estate only. (c) Both (a) and (b).
(c) The members of the second estate. (d) Because the common people looted the
(d) The groups of clergy and nobility. treasury during demolition of Bastile.

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14. What was the reason of increased demand 22. Which of the following leaders headed the
for food grains in France during 1715 to formation of the National Assembly?
1789? (a) Mirabean (b) Abbe Sieyes
(a) Heavy export of food grains from France. (c) The Peasants (d) Both (a) and (b)
(b) High rise in population during these years.
(c) Rapid industrialization, of the agricultural land. 23. Why was the National Assembly convened
(d) Many large scale famines during these years. in France?
(a) To draft a Constitution for France
15. When was Constitution framed in France to (b) To limit the powers of the Monarch
limit the powers of the King? (c) Both (a) and (b)
(a) In 1789 (b) In 1794 (d) To compel the king to abdicate the throne
(c) In 1748 (d) In 1791
24. When did the National Assembly pass a
16. Which of the following French philosopher decree abolishing the feudal system of
(s) of 18th century advocated the idea of obligations and taxes in France?
freedom and equal laws? (a) In 1784 (b) In 1789
(a) Montesquieu (c) In 1781 (d) In 1785
(b) Jhon Locke
(c) Jacques Rousseau 25. Which of the following was not a feature of
(d) Both (b) and (a) the French Constitution of 1791?
(a) France became a Constitutional Monarch.
17. Which of the following French philosophers (b) It declared the rights of man and woman,
refuted the doctrine of the divine and (c) Only men of 25 years of age -who paid taxes
absolute right of the monarch? were given right to vote.
(a) Jhon Locke (b) Rousseau (d) There was no freedom of speech.
(c) Montesquieu (d) None of these
26. Name the countries against which the
18. Which of the following philosophers National Assembly declared war in 1792?
proposed an idea of a government based on (a) Prussia (b) Austria
a social contract between people and their (c) Hungary (d) Both (a) and (b)
representatives?
(a) Locke (b) Rousseau 27. Which was the most successful
(c) Montesquieu (d) None of these revolutionary political club of France?
(a) Dunic (b) Jacobins
19. Which of the following philosophers (c) Jurich (d) None of these
proposed a division of power within the
government between the legislative, the 28. Who were not the members of the Jacobin
executive and the judiciary? club?
(a) Montesquieu (b) Rousseau (a) Small shopkeepers
(c) Jhon Locke (d) None of these (b) Clergy
(c) Artisans
20. Which of the following political body, the (d) Daily-wage earners
three estates in France used to send their
representative? 29. Who was the leader of Jacobins?
(a) National Assembly (b) Estate General (a) Robespierre (b) Rousseau
(c) King's Court (d) Parliament (c) Locke (d) Montesquieu

21. Which of the following estates formed the 30. Who abolished Monarchy in France
National Assembly in France? declared it a republic?
(a) The first estate (a) The clergy groups
(b) The second estate (b) The National Assembly
(c) The third estate (c) The 'Convention’
(d) None of these (d) The King

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 31. On what charge was Louis XVI sentenced 40. When did the slave trade begin?
to death? (a) In the sixteenth century
(a) Treason (b) Corruption (b) In the seventeenth century
(c) Homicide (d) None of these (c) In the eighteenth century
(d) In the nineteenth century
32. Which period is referred to as the ‘Reign of
Terror’ in France? 41. Name the port city related with slave trade
(a) 1781 to 1792 (b) 1793 to 1794 (a) San Domingo
(c) 1792 to 1793 (d) 1781 to 1782 (b) Bordeaux
(c) Nantes
33. What was guillotine? (d) Both (b) and (c)
(a) A device to execute death sentences.
(b) A type of tax paid by peasants 42. When was slavery abolished in French
(c) An administrative officer in King's court colonies?
(d) None of these (a) 1838 (b) 1848
(c) 1858 (d) 1868
34. Which is the 'National Anthem' of France?
(a) The Mobestle 43. Which right was declared as a Natural right
(b) The Marseillaise by the declaration of the rights?
(c) The Martial (a) Right to vote
(d) None of these (b) Right to freedom of speech
(c) Right to property
35. Who composed the National Anthem of (d) Right to trade
France?
(a) The Jacobins 44. When did Napoleon Bonaparte crown
(b) The Conventionists himself emperor of France?
(c) Roget de I/Isle (a) In 1804 (b) In 1805
(d) Fredrick Roget (c) In 1848 (d) In 1868

36. When did women get Voting Rights in 45. When and where was Nepoleon Bonaparte
France? crown himself emperor of France?
(a) 1792 (b) 1846 (a) Water-Loo, 1815
(c) 1946 (d) 1982 (b) Waterloo, 1804
(c) Water-Loo, 1848
37. Which of the following was not the reaction (d) Water-Loo, 1828
of the Robespierre’s government towards
woman’s activities? 46. Which were the most important legacy of
(a) Women’s club were closed. the French revolution?
(b) Women with two children were arrested. (a) The idea of Democracy
(c) Women's political activities were banned. (b) The idea of Liberty
(d) A number of prominent women were (c) The idea of democratic rights
executed. (d) The ideas of Liberty and democratic rights

38. Which was not the French colonies in the 47. Which Indian individuals responded to the
Caribbean? ideas coming from revolutionary France?
(a) Martinique (b) Guadeloupe (a) B. G. Tilak
(c) Santiago (d) San domingo (b) Tipu Sultan
(c) Ram Mohan Roy
39. Which of the following commodities did the (d) Both (B) and (c)
French colonies not supply in the
Caribbean?
(a) Rice (b) Tabacco
(c) Indigo (d) Sugar

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 ANSWER - KEYS

1. C 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. C

6. C 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. B

11. C 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. D

16. D 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. B

21. C 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. D

26. D 27. B 28. B 29. A 30. C

31. A 32. B 33. A 34. B 35. C

36. C 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. A

41. D 42. B 43. B 44. A 45. A

46. D 47. D