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Chapter: The French Revolution

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Q11. A triangular slave trade took place between
Multiple Choice Questions Europe, the Americas and…..?
a) Asia b) Australia
Q1. On ………………. the city of Paris was in a state of c) Africa d) None
alarm. The king had commanded troops to move
into the city. Q12. What did the slaves wear after becoming free?
a) 15 July 1779 b) 14 July 1779 a) Blue cap b) Red cap
c) 15 July 1789 d) 14 July 1789 c) White cap d) Green cap

Q2. Some 7,000 men and women gathered in front Q13. Who were not considered passive citizens?
of the town hall and decided to form a …………? a) Women b) Children
a) Peoples party b) Peoples’ militia c) Non property men d) Wealthy people
c) Peoples democracy d) Peoples presence
Q14. The third estate comprised……?
Q3. Finally, a group of several hundred people a) Poor and small peasants
marched towards the …………….. part of the city and b) Land less labour
stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, where they c) Peasants and artisans
hoped to find hoarded ammunition? d) All
a) Eastern b) Northern
c) Western d) Southern Q15. Which of the following decisions was taken by
the convention?
Q4. Why was the fortress-prison, the Bastille, hated a) It declared France a constitutional Monarchy
by all? b) Abolished the Monarchy
a) It stood for the despotic power of the king. c) All men and women above 21 got the right to vote
b) Because of dictatorship d) Declared France a Republic
c) Aristocracy
d) None of these Q16. How does a subsistence crisis happen?
a) Bad harvest leads of scarcity of grains
Q5. What was the main protest by the people? b) Food prices rise and the poor cannot buy bread
a) Price of bread b) Behavior of the king c) Leads to disease and death
c) Poverty of the people d) High taxes d) All

Q6. Who said “ the task of representing the people Q17. Which of the following statements is false
has to be given to the rich”? about the Third Estate?
a) Mirabeau b) Jean Paul Marat a) It comprised of poor only
c) Rousseau d) Georges Denton b) Some were rich some were poor
c) Rich members owned land
Q7. The National Assembly formed a constitution in d) Peasant were obliged to serve in the army
1791, to limit the power of the …….?
a) Wealthy men b) Businessmen Q18. What was a guillotine?
c) Monarch d) Press a) A device consisted of two poles and a blade to
behead people
Q8. Who wrote the influential pamphlet- ‘What is b) A fine sword to behead people
the Third Estate”? c) A special noose to hang people
a) Mirabeau b) Jean Paul Marat d) None 0f these
c) Abbe Sieyes d) Georges Denton
Q19. What does the word livres stand for?
Q9. Which group of people did not join the Jacobin a) Unit of currency in France
Club? b) Tax levied by the state
a) Artisans b) Shopkeepers c) Tax levied by the Church
c) Daily wage workers d) Men with property d) Tax to the Landlord

Q10. French women demanded the right to…..? Q20. What was Estates General?
a) Vote a) Post of army general
b) To be elected in the assembly b) A political body
c) To hold political office c) Head of all landed property
d) All d) Advisor of the king

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Q21. The term old regime is used to describe……? a) A tax levied by the Church
a) France before 1000 BC b) Tax by the state
b) Society of France after 1789 c) Tax by the Monarch
c) Society of France before 1789 d) None
d) None
Q31. Which unit of currency was discontinued in the
Q22. Which of these books was written by John year 1794?
Locke? a) Dollar b) Livre
a) The spirit of the laws c) Rupee d) Taille
b) Two treatises on Government
c) The social contract Q32. What was the tax to be paid directly to the
d) All state by all the members of the Third Estate Known
as?
Q23. In the meeting of the Estates General, the a) tithes b) taille
members of the Third Estate demanded that……… c) feudal dues d) manorial dues
a) All the estates have one vote together
b) Each estate should have one vote Q33. Who was the king of France during the French
c) Each member of all three estates should have one Revolution?
vote each a) Louis XVIII b) Louis XVII
d) None c) Louis XVI d) Louis XV

Q24. Who led the representatives of the Third Estate Q34. An Englishman who travelled through France
in Versailles on 20th June? during the years 1787-1789 and wrote the
a) Mirabeau b) Abbe Sieyes descriptions of his journeys was __________.
c) Louis XVI d) A & B a) George Danton b) Arthur Young
c) Montesquieu d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Q25. Which of these provisions were passed by the
Assembly on night of 4th August 1789? Q35. Which was the political body where the three
a) Abolition of feudal system estates used to send their representatives?
b) Clergy had to give up its privileges a) Estates General b) Assembly
c) Tithes was abolished c) First Estate d) Chateau
d) All
Q36. What was an estate consisting of the lord’s
Q26. According to the new constitution 1791, the lands and his mansion known as?
National Assembly was to be …… ? a) chateau b) manor
a) Elected directly c) bastille d) castle
b) Appointed by the king
c) Elected indirectly Q37. When did the National Assembly of France
d) A hereditary body complete the drafting of the Constitution?
a) 1792 b) 1789
Q27. Which of the following is true is about Bastille c) 1774 d) 1791 Q
Storming?
a) It was a fortress prison in France Q38. For a member of the Assembly, a man had to
b) It represented despotic powers belong to the highest bracket of taxpayers to qualify
c) French common man hated Bastille as an ____.
d) All a) clergy b) taille
c) elector d) tithes
Q28. When did the fall of Bastille take place?
a) 14 July 1789 b) 20 June 1789 Q39. Which symbol expressed the personification of
c) 4 August 1789 d) 5 May 1789 law in France?
a) winged women b) sceptre
Q29. Which estates in France were exempted from c) eye within a triangle d) law table
paying taxes?
a) The first Estate b) The second Estate Q40. The National Anthem of France which was sung
c) First and Second estate both d) The Third estate for the first time by volunteers as they marched into
Paris was ____________
Q30. What was Tithes? a) Marseillaise b) Versailles

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c) Bastille d) Chateaux
Assertion-Reason
Q41. On 21st September 1792, the monarchy was
abolished and France was declared a ________. Directions:- In the following questions, the
a) autocratic b) democratic Assertions(A) and Reason(R) have been put forward.
c) communist d) republic Read both statements carefully and choose the
correct answer from the below:
Q42. The period from _____________ was referred a) If both Assertion (A) and Reason(R) are true and
to as the ‘Reign of Terror’. Reason(R) is the correct explanation of Assertion(A).
a) 1793-1794 b) 1794-1795 b) If both Assertion(A)and Reason(R) are true but
c) 1795-1796 d) 1792-1793 Reason(R) is not the correct explanation of
assertion(A).
Q43. Women of France were disappointed that the c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason(R) is false.
Constitution of 1791 reduced them to _________. d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason(R) is true.
a) active citizens b) passive citizens
c) executive d) electors Q51. Assertion: Robespierre's government issued
laws placing a maximum ceiling on wages and prices.
Q44. The women in France win the right to vote in Meat and bread were rationed.
______. Reason (R): Peasants were forced to transport their
a) 1946 b) 1942 grain to the cities and sell it at prices fixed by the
c) 1945 d) 1947 Government.

Q45. In which century the slave trade began? Q52. Assertion (A): It was finally in 1946 that women
a) sixteenth-century b) fifteenth century in France won the Right to Vote.
c) seventeenth century d) eighteenth century Reason (R): The example of the political activities of
French women during the revolutionary years was
Q46. When was Napoleon Bonaparte crowned as the kept alive as an inspiring memory.
Emperor of France?
a) 1801 b) 1802 c) 1803 d) 1804
Case Based Question
Q47. ______________ was regarded as the
moderniser of Europe in 1804. Read the given passage and answer the following
a) Napoleon b) Olympe de Gouges questions:
c) Robespierre d) Robespierre Case I: The society of estates was part of the feudal
system that dated back to the Middle Ages. The term
Q48. In the year ________ Napoleon Bonaparte was Old Regime is usually used to describe the society
defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. and institutions of France before 1789. French
a) 1814 b) 1813 society was organised in system of estates. Peasants
c) 1815 d) 1816 made up about 90 per cent of the population.
However, only a small number of them owned the
Q49. One important law that came into effect soon land they cultivated. About 60 per cent of the land
after the storming of the Bastille in the summer of was owned by nobles, the Church and other richer
members of the third estate. The members of the
1789 was the abolition of _____________.
a) leadership b) censorship first two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility,
c) invading force d) slavery enjoyed certain privileges by birth. The most
important of these was exemption from paying taxes
Q50. Name the two individuals from India who to the state. The nobles further enjoyed feudal
responded to the ideas coming from revolutionary privileges. These included feudal dues, which they
France extracted from the peasants. Peasants were obliged
a) Tantia Tope and Raja Rammohun Roy to render services to the lord – to work in his house
b) Tipu Sultan and Laxmi Bai and fields – to serve in the army or to participate in
c) Tipu Sultan and Rammohun Roy building roads.
d) Chandrasekhar Azad and Raja Rammohun Roy
Q53. The term Old Regime describes the Society and
Institutions of France before _______
a) 1879 b) 1789
c) 1987 d) 1798

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Q54. What was the ratio of the Peasants? Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements
a) 80% b) 50% and chose the correct option:
c) 60% d) 90% Assertion (A): The people of France storm the
Bastille.
Q55. About ________percent of the land was Reason (R): They were hopeful to find King Louis XIV
owned by nobles, the church and other richer and commander of the Bastille there.
members of the third estate. a)Both A and R are correct and R is the correct
a) 50 b) 80 explanation of A.
c) 60 d) 70 b)Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct
explanation of A.
Q56. The feudal dues were extracted from: c) A is correct but R is wrong.
a) Businessmen b) Peasants d) Both A and R are wrong.
c) Artisans d) Merchants
Q60. What was the immediate cause of rioting in
Case II: On the morning of 14 July 1789, the city of Paris?
Paris was in a state of alarm. The king had a) Atrocities by the commander
commanded troops to move into the city. Rumours b)The high price of bread
spread that he would soon order the army to open c) The killing of women and children
fire upon the citizens. Some 7,000 men and women d) All of these
gathered in front of the town hall and decided to
form a peoples’ militia. They broke into a number of
government buildings in search of arms. Finally, a Subjective
group of several hundred people marched towards
the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress- Q61. “Ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the
prison, the Bastille, where they hoped to find most important legacy of the French Revolution”.
hoarded ammunition. In the armed fight that Explain the statement in the light of French
followed, the commander of the Bastille was killed Revolution.
and the prisoners released – though there were only
seven of them. Yet the Bastille was hated by all Q62. Explain the impact of the French Revolution on
because it stood for the despotic power of the king. the life of people of French.
The fortress was demolished and its stone fragments
were sold in the markets to all those who wished to Q63. What compelled Louis XVI to raise taxes in
keep a souvenir of its destruction. The days that France?
followed saw more rioting both in Paris and the
countryside. Most people were protesting against Q64. Describe the status of the nobles in France
the high price of bread. Much later, when historians before the revolution.
looked back upon this time, they saw it as the
beginning of a chain of events that ultimately led to Q65. “The inequality that existed in the French
the execution of the king in France, though most Society in the Old Regime became the cause of
people at the time did not anticipate this outcome French Revolution”. Justify the statement by giving
three suitable examples.
Q57. On 14th July, 1789 the people of the ________
estate attacked the Bastille prison and freed all the Q66. How did philosophers influence the thinking of
prisoners signalling the start of the _________. the people of France?
a) first, civil war b) fourth, Russian war
c)second, movement d) third, revolution Q67. What was the role of philosophers and thinkers
in the French Revolution? Explain by giving three
Q58. Which of the following statement is incorrect? examples.
a)The Bastille was the fortress-prison.
b) The Bastille stood for the democratic power of the Q68. What measures were taken by Robespierre to
king. bring equality in the French Society?
c)On the morning of 14 July 1789, the people of Paris
stormed Bastille Q69. How did the peasants contribute to the
d)All are correct outbreak of the French Revolution? Explain.

Q59.In the question given below, there are two Q70. State the events that led to the formation of
statements marked as the National Assembly.

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Q71. .Describe how abolition of slavery became

possible in France.

ANSWERS KEY
1b 2b 3a 4.a 5.a 6.b
7.c 8.c 9.d 10.d 11.c 12.b
13.d 14.d 15. d 16.d 17.a 18.a
19.a 20.b 21.c 22.b 23.a 24.d
25.d 26.c 27.d 28.a 29.c 30.a
31.b 32.b 33.c 34.b 35.a 36.b
37.d 38.c 39.a 40.a 41.d 42.a
43.b 44.a 45.c 46.d 47.a 48. c
49.b 50.c
Assertion-Reason
51.a 52.b
Case Based Question
53.b 54.d 55.c 56.b 57.d 58.b
59.c 60.b

CPP(Only for teacher)

C1. List the factors that led to subsistence crises?

C2. How did France become a constitutional

monarchy?

C3. What is the significance of the Bastille in the

history of France and the world?

C4. Trace the history of the emergence of middle

class in French society in the 18th century?

C5. What political system came into being in France

Under the new constitution of 1791?

C6. Why is the period from 1793 to 1794 referred to

as Reign of terror?

C7. What steps did the women take in order to

discuss and voice their interests after the French
Revolution? What were their main demands?

C8. Trace the history of France under the

emperorship of Napoleon Bonaparte?

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