AP 9th Class Social History Bits 1st Lesson The French Revolution
Select and write the most appropriate option out of the four options given.
Question 1.
The city of Paris is located in
A) Austria
B) America
C) France
D) Prussia
Answer:
C) France
Question 2.
When did the French Revolution occur?
A) 14th July 1798
B) 14th July 1789
C) 14th July 1979
Answer:
B) 14th July 1789b
Question 3.
Who was the King of France during the French Revolution?
A) Louis XVI
B) Louis XVII
C) Louis XIV
D) Louis XV
Answer:
A) Louis XVI
Question 4.
Which of the following is true about Bastille storming?
A) It was a fortress prison in France.
B) It representated despotic powers.
C) Common man in France hated Bastille.
D) All of these.
Answer:
D) All of these.
Question 5.
Queen of the France at the time of French Revolution?
A) Marie Theresse
B) Marie Antoinette
C) Aquiva Monessert
D) Marie Balchant
Answer:
B) Marie Antoinette
Question 6.
Louis XVi ascended the throne of France in
A) 1773
B) 1772
C) 1774
D) 1788
Answer:
C) 1774
Question 7.
Common enemy of France and American colonies
A) Prussia
B) Britain
C) Russia
D) Austria
Answer:
B) Britain
Question 8.
In 18th century French society was divided into
A) Three estates
B) Four estates
C) Two estates
D) Five estates
Answer:
A) Three estates
Question 9.
Which estate people only paid taxes?
A) Fourth estate
B) First estate
C) Second estate
D) Third estate
Answer:
D) Third estate
Question 10.
Which of the following constituted the privileges class?
A) Clergy and Third Estate
B) Nobility and peasants
C) Clergy and nobility
D) Third estate
Answer:
C) Clergy and nobility
Question 11.
The term’Old Regime’is usually used to describe
A) France before 1200 BC
B) Society of France after 1789 AD
C) Society and Institution of France before 1789 AD
D) None of these
Answer:
C) Society and Institution of France before 1789 AD
Question 12.
What was tithes
A) A tax levied by the church
B) Tax directly to be paid to the state
C) Currency of France
D) Tax to be paid by money lenders.
Answer:
A) A tax levied by the church
Question 13.
The third estate comprised
A) Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers
B) Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc.
C) Peasants and artisan
D) All the above
Answer:
D) All the above
Question 14.
Which of the following statements is untrue about the third estate?
A) The third estate was made of the poor only
B) In third estate some were poor and some were rich
C) Some members of third estate were rich and owned lands
D) Peasants were obliged to serve in the army
Answer:
A) The third estate was made of the poor only
Question 15.
The word ‘Livre’ stands for
A) Tax to be paid directly to the State
B) Tax to be paid to the Church
C) Tax to be paid to the King
D) Unit currency of France
Answer:
D) Unit currency of France
Question 16.
Subsistence crisis happens when
A) Bad harvest leads to scarcity of grains
B) Food prices rise and the poorest cannot buy bread
C) Leads to weaker bodies, diseases, deaths and even food riots
D) All these
Answer:
D) All these
Question 17.
What was the ‘Subsistence crisis’ which occurred frequently in France?
A) Subsidy in food grains
B) Large scale production of food grains
C) An extreme situation endangering the basic means of livelihood
D) None of these
Answer:
C) An extreme situation endangering the basic means of livelihood
Question 18.
The book written by John Locke
A) The Social Contract
B) The Spirit of the Laws
C) Two Treatises on Government
D) Freedom and Equal laws
Answer:
C) Two Treatises on Government
Question 19.
The book written by Montesquieu
A) The Social Contract
B) The Spirit of the Laws
C) Two Treatises on Government
D) Freedom and Equal laws
Answer:
B) The Spirit of the Laws
Question 20.
The influential pamphlet ‘What is the Third Estate’ was writen by
A) Abbe Sieyes
B) Jean – Paul Marat
C) Mirabeau
D) Rousseau
Answer:
A) Abbe Sieyes
Question 21.
What was’Estates General’?
A) Army General
B) A political body
C) Church
D) Louis XVI
Answer:
B) A political body
Question 22.
In the meeting of the Estate General, the members of the Third Estate demanded that
A) Each Estate should have one vote
B) Each member of the three estates should have one vote
C) All the members should have one vote
D) None of these
Answer:
C) All the members should have one vote
Question 23.
Who led the representatives of the Third Estate in Versailles on 20th June?
A) Mirabeau
B) Abbe Sieyes
C) Louis XVI
D) Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes
Answer:
D) Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes
Question 24.
When did the National Assembly of France complete the drafting of the Constitution?
A) 1792
B) 1774
C) 1789
D) 1794
Answer:
D) 1794
Question 25.
Which of these provisions were passes by the Assembly on 4th August 1789?
A) Clergy had to give up its privileges
B) Tithes was abolished
C) Abolition of Feudal system
D) All these
Answer:
D) All these
Question 26.
According to the new constitution 1791, the Nationl Assembly was to be elected
A) Directly
B) Indirectly
C) Hereditary
D) By the King
Answer:
B) Indirectly
Question 27.
An estate consisting of the lord’s lands and his mansion known as
A) Bastille
B) Chateau
C) Manor
D) Estate
Answer:
C) Manor
Question 28.
Which of the following decision was taken by the convention?
A) Abolished monarchy
B) Declared France as constitutional monarchy
C) All then and women above 21 age can vote
D) Declared, France Republic
Answer:
D) Declared, France Republic
Question 29.
Who were not considered ‘passive citizens’?
A) Wealthy people
B) Children
C) Peasants
D) Women
Answer:
A) Wealthy people
Question 30.
The National Assembly framed the Constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the
A) wealthy man
B) monarch
C) press
D) peasants
Answer:
A) wealthy man
Question 31.
Which of these rights were not established as ‘Natural and Inalienable’ Rights by the Constitution of 1791?
A) Equality before law
B) Freedom of speech and opinion
C) Right to life
D) All these
Answer:
D) All these
Question 32.
People who did not join the Jacobin club
A) Shopkeepers
B) Artisans
C) Men with property
D) Peasants
Answer:
C) Men with property
Question 33.
Leader of the Jacobin club.
A) Rousseau
B) Robespierre
C) John Locke
D) Roget de L’ Isle
Answer:
B) Robespierre
Question 34.
Patriotic song Marseillaise was composed by
A) Roget de L ‘Isle
B) Rousseau
C) John Locke
D) Montesquieu
Answer:
A) Roget de L ‘Isle
Question 35.
A triangular slave trade took place between Europe, America and
A) Africa
B) Asia
C) Australia
D) Prussia
Answer:
A) Africa
Question 36.
Upon becoming free, the slave wore
A) Green cap
B) Yellow cap
C) Red cap
D) White cap
Answer:
C) Red cap
Question 37.
Women of France were disappointed because the Constitution of 1791 kept them as
A) Passive citizens
B) Active citizens
C) Electors
D) None of these
Answer:
A) Passive citizens
Question 38.
Woman of France demanded for the Right
A) to vote
B) to hold political club
C) to be elected to assembly
D) All these
Answer:
D) All these
Question 39.
Which symbol expressed the personification of law in France?
A) Sceptre
B) Winged women
C) Eye within a triangle
D) The broken a chain
Answer:
B) Winged women
Question 40.
The women in France won the Right to vote in
A) 1942
B) 1945
C) 1947
D) 1946
Answer:
D) 1946
Question 41.
Guillotine was
A) A special noose to hang people
B) A device consisting two poles and a blade with which a person can be beheaded
C) A fine sword
D) None of these
Answer:
B) A device consisting two poles and a blade with which a person can be beheaded
Question 42.
The currency which was discontinued in the year 1794
A) Dollar
B) Taille
C) Livre
D) Pound
Answer:
C) Livre
Question 43.
Slave trade began in
A) 15th century
B) 17th century
C) 18th century
D) 16th century
Answer:
B) 17th century
Question 44.
Napoleon was crowned as the Emperor of France in
A) 1804
B) 1805
C) 1803
D) 1802
Answer:
A) 1804
Question 45.
Who was regarded as Moderniser of Europe in 1804?
A) Rousseau
B) Locke
C) Napoleon
D) Montesquieu
Answer:
C) Napoleon
Question 46.
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in
A) 1813
B) 1815
C) 1816
D) 1814
Answer:
B) 1815
Question 47.
Indian individuals who responded to the ideal came from Revolutionary France
A) Bose and Rammohan Roy
B) Lakshmibai and Rammohan Roy
C) Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy
D) Bose and Lakshmibai
Answer:
C) Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy
Question 48.
When was slavery finally abolished in France?
A) 1851
B) 1850
C) 1848
D) 1849
Answer:
C) 1848
Question 49.
Which of the following symbolised Eternity?
A) Snake biting its tail to form a ring
B) Eye within a triangle
C) The law tablet
D) Sceptre
Answer:
A) Snake biting its tail to form a ring
Question 50.
Which of the following was a factor in the rise of Napoleon?
A) Fall of Jacobin government
B) Nationalist forces
C) Robespierre’s Reign of Terror
D) Political instability of the directory
Answer:
D) Political instability of the directory
Question 51.
Arrange the given events in a chronological order.
1) Louis XVI became the King of France
2) The storming of Bastille
3) Abolition of Slavery .
4) Napoleon defeat in the Battle of Waterloo
A) 1,2, 4, 3
B) 1,2, 3,4
C) 1,4, 3, 2
D) 1,3, 4,2
Answer:
A) 1,2, 4, 3
One word or one sentence answer questions
Question 1.
When was the Bastille Prison stormed ?
Answer:
On 14th July, 1789.
Question 2.
To which dynasty Louis XVI belonged?
Answer:
Bourbon dynasty. He became the King of France in 1774.
Question 3.
Who was the common enemy of France and American colonies?
Answer:
Britain.
Question 4.
Who helped the American Colonies to gain independence?
Answer:
France under Louis XVI.
Question 5.
What were the three estates that French society was divided?
Answer:
The First Estate – Clergy The Second Estate – Nobility The Third Estate – Common people
Question 6.
What was tithes?
Answer:
A tax levied by the church, comprising one tenth of the agricultural produce.
Question 7.
What were the two estates that enjoyed the privileges by birth?
Answer:
The Clergy and the Nobility.
Question 8.
What was taille?
Answer:
It was a tax to be paid to the state.
Question 9.
Who had to bear the burden’of taxes?
Answer:
The Third Estate alone.
Question 10.
Who had written the book ‘Two Treatises of Government’?
Answer:
John Locke.
Question 11.
Who had written the bark ‘The Spirit of Laws’?
Answer:
Montesquieu.
Question 12.
Who proposed a division of power within the Government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary?
Answer:
Montesquieu.
Question 13.
What was the political body to which the three estates sent their representatives?
Answer:
The Estates General.
Question 14.
What was the book written by Rousseau?
Answer:
The Social Contract.
Question 15.
Who formed the National Assembly in France in 1789?
Answer:
The Third Estate.
Question 16.
Who led the Third Estate?
Answer:
Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes.
Question 17.
Who wrote the influential pamphlet? What is the Third Estate?
Answer:
Abbe Sieyes.
Question 18.
Which class of Society in France was behind the French Revolution?
Answer:
Middle Class.
Question 19.
What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
Answer:
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.
Question 20.
What was Feudal system?
Answer:
It was a system under which land was granted to landlords in return for a military or labour services.
Question 21.
Who was the philosopher that forwarded the principle of voting by the assembly as a whole where each member should have one vote, during the rule of Louis XVI?
Answer:
Rousseau.
Question 22.
In which book Rousseau mentioned the idea of one person one vote?
Answer:
The Social Contract.
Question 23.
Who are passive citizens?
Answer:
Men and women who were not entitled to vote.
Question 24.
What were natural and inalienable rights?
Answer:
Rights which belonged to each human being by birth and could not be taken away.
Question 25.
Whom did Louis XVI get married to?
Answer:
Princess Marie Antoniette of AustriAnswer:
Question 26.
What was a Manor?
Answer:
Manor was an estate consisting of the lord’s lands and his mansion.
Question 27.
Who composed the patriotic song ‘Marseillaise’?
Answer:
Roget de L’ Isle.
Question 28.
What is the national anthem of France?
Answer: The Marseillaise.
Question 29.
Who was the leader of Jacobin club?
Answer: Maximilien Robespierre.
Question 30.
Who introduced ‘Reign of Terror’ in France?
Answer: Robespierre.
Question 31.
What was Directory?
Answer:
Directory was an executive made up of 5 members. They were appointed by two elected legislative councils.
Question 32.
Name the important political clubs formed by women in France to fight their political rights.
Answer:
The Society of Revolutionary and the Republican women.
Question 33.
When did women finally get the right to vote in France?
Answer:
In 1946.
Question 34.
Between which three continents triangular slave trade was held?
Answer:
Europe, Africa and America.
Question 35.
Name the French ports through which slave trade was done.
Answer:
Bordeaux and Nantes.
Question 36.
When was slavery finally abolished in France?
Answer:
In 1848.
Question 37.
When did Napoleon became emperor of France?
Answer:
In 1804.
Question 38.
What was the most important legacy of the French Revolution?
Answer:
The ideas of liberty and democratic rights.
Question 39.
With what name the newly elected assembly was called?
Answer:
Convention.
Question 40.
When did France become a Republic?
Answer:
On 21st September 1792 Monarchy was abolished and became a Republic.
Question 41.
When was Louis XVI executed?
Answer:
On 21st January 1793.
Question 42.
What is guillotine?
Answer:
A device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person is beheaded.
Question 43.
Who invented guillotine?
Answer:
Dr. Guillotin.
Question 44.
When was Napoleon defeated finally?
Answer:
At Waterloo in 1815.
Question 45.
Who were the Indians that responded to the ideas came from revolutionary France?
Answer:
Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy.
Fill in the blanks:
1. On 14th July 1789 men and women gathered before town hall to form a _________
Answer: Peoples Militia
2. People hoped to find _________ in Bastille.
Answer: hoarded ammunition
3. Bastille was hated by all because it stood for the _________
Answer: despotic power of the king
4. Louis XVI belong to _________ family of kings.
Answer: Bourbon
5. Members of the first two estates were _________ and
Answer: Clergy, Nobility
6. Cause for increase in demand for food grains was _________
Answer: increasing population
7. An exteme situation where the basic means of livelihood are endangered _________.
Answer: subsistence crisis
8. Social group which emerged by earning wealth through overseas trade from manufacturing goods was _________
Answer: Middle class
9. “The Spirit of Laws” was written by _________
Answer: Montesquieu
10. The book written by Rousseau _________
Answer: The Social Contractconvent
11. Citizens natural Rights had to be protected by the _________
Answer: State
12. National Anthem of France _________
Answer: The Marseillaise
13. A building belonging to a community devoted to a religious life is called a _________
Answer: Convent
14. Policy of severe control and punishment was followed by _________
Answer: Robespierre
15. The device guillotine was invented by _________
Answer: Dr. Guillotin
16. Political instability paved way for _________
Answer: Napoleon
17. Slavery was finally abolished in French Colonies in _________
Answer: Dr. Guillotin
18. Abolition of censorship in _________
Answer: 1789
19. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as Emperor of France in _________
Answer: 1848
20. Most important legacy of the French Revolutions is _________ and _________
Answer: the ideas of liberty and democratic rights
Match the following.
Question 1.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Livre | A) Group of persons invested with special functions in the church |
| 2) Tithe | B) Tax to be paid to the state |
| 3) Clergy | C) Unit of currency in France |
| 4) Taille | D) Building belonging to a community devoted to a religious life |
| 5) Chateau | E) A taxed levied by the church |
| F) Castle or residence belonging to a king |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Livre | C) Unit of currency in France |
| 2) Tithe | E) A taxed levied by the church |
| 3) Clergy | A) Group of persons invested with special functions in the church |
| 4) Taille | B) Tax to be paid to the state |
| 5) Chateau | F) Castle or residence belonging to a king |
Question 2.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Declaration of the rights of women and citizen | A) 1804 |
| 2) Abolition of slavery | B) 1815 |
| 3) Storming of the Bastille | C) 1817 |
| 4) War of Waterloo ‘ | D) 1848 |
| 5) Napoleon becoming emperor (of France | E) 1791 |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Declaration of the rights of women and citizen | E) 1791 |
| 2) Abolition of slavery | D) 1848 |
| 3) Storming of the Bastille | F) 1789 |
| 4) War of Waterloo ‘ | B) 1815 |
| 5) Napoleon becoming emperor (of France | A) 1804 |
Question 3.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Red Phrygian cap | A) The national colours of France |
| 2) The Law Tablet | B) Act of becoming free |
| 3) Blue-white-red | C) Personification of the law |
| 4) The winged woman | D) Cap worn by a slave upon becoming free |
| 5) Sceptre | E) Symbol of royal power |
| F) The Law is same for all and all are equal before it. |
Answer:
| Column – I | Column – II |
| 1) Red Phrygian cap | D) Cap worn by a slave upon becoming free |
| 2) The Law Tablet | F) The Law is same for all and all are equal before it. |
| 3) Blue-white-red | A) The national colours of France |
| 4) The winged woman | C) Personification of the law |
| 5) Sceptre | E) Symbol of royal power |
True or false:
1. In France of the old Regime the monarch did not have the power to impose taxes according his will. ( )
Answer: True
2. On 20th June 1789 representatives of third estate assembled under the leadership of Rousseau. ( )
Answer: false
3. The members of the Jacobin club were from wealthy section of the people. ( )
Answer: false
4. The newly elected assembly called convention abolished the monarchy and declared France a Republic. ( )
Answer: True
Question 5.
Napoleon’s rule in France is known as the ’Reign of Terror’. ( )
Answer: false
6. Abolish of slavery was one of the most revolutionary reforms of Napoleon regime. ( )
Answer: false
7. Traingular trade began between Europe, Prussia and Africa. ( )
Answer: false
8. Protection of private property law was introduced by Jacobin. ( )
Answer: false
9. Liberty and democratic rights were the most important legacy of the French revolution. ( )
Answer: True
Analogy:
1. Livre : Currency in France :: _________ : Tax levied by the Church.
Answer: Title
2. Clergy : First Estate :: Administrative officials : _________
Answer: Third Estate
3. The Spirit of Laws : Montesquieu :: Two Treatises of Government : _________
Answer: John Locke
4. The Social Contract: Rousseau :: What is the Third Estate : _________
Answer: Abbe Sieyes