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The French Revolution (Class - IX)

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Why did the Parisian people storm the Bastille on 14th July, 1789?

a. The Bastille held the leaders of the French revolution and the people wanted to free them. b. The people hoped to find hoarded ammunition in the Bastille. c. The people wanted to demolish the fortress and sell its stone fragments.

  1. a and b

  2. a and c

  3. b and c

  4. a, b and c

  5. b only


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The people's militia that was formed on 17th July, 1789 wanted arms as there were rumours that the troops that had been ordered to open fire on its citizens. The crowd that stormed the Bastille hoped to find hoarded ammunition there.

Which of the following is correct about 'tithe'?

  1. It was the loan that the French government had to pay back.

  2. It was the rent on the land that was cultivated by peasents, but owned by the nobles.

  3. It was the tax levied by the church on the peasants comprising ten percent agricultural produce.

  4. It was the direct tax paid to the state by the third estate.

  5. It was the indirect tax levied on articles of everyday consumption like salt or tobacco.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Tithe was the tax levied by the church on the peasants. This included ten percent agricultural produce.

Who authored the revolutionary work 'The Spirit of the Laws', which proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary?

  1. Jean Jacques Rousseau

  2. John Locke

  3. Georges Danton

  4. Montesquieu

  5. Arthur Young


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu was a French political philosopher who wrote 'The Spirit of Laws'. This model of government was put into force in the USA after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain.

'The Marseillaise' became the national anthem of France after the revolution. Who composed this song?

  1. Rouget de Lisle

  2. Jean-Paul Marat

  3. Abbe Sieyes

  4. Mirabeau

  5. Jacques-Louis David


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Marseillaise was composed by poet Rouget de Lisle. It was sung for the first time by volunteers from Marseilles as they marched into Paris.

The Estates General assembly denied entry to which of the following?

a. Women b. Artisans c. Peasants d. Priests

  1. a, b and c

  2. a, b and d

  3. b, c and d

  4. a, c and d

  5. a, b, c and d


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is correct as peasants, artisans and women were denied entry to the assembly of the Estates General.

The land tax levied on the French peasantry and non-nobles was called

  1. salt tax

  2. vingtieme

  3. taille

  4. capitation

  5. champart


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is correct as taille was the tax levied by the state.

When was Louis XVI sentenced to death by a court on charge of treason?

  1. 1791

  2. 1792

  3. 1793

  4. 1795

  5. 1804


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on charge of treason. 

The Jacobin men wore a red phrygian cap. What did this cap symbolise?

  1. It symbolised that the law is the same for all.

  2. It symbolised knowledge.

  3. It symbolised eternity.

  4. It symbolised royal power.

  5. It symbolised liberty.


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Sans-culottes men wore the red caps that symbolised liberty.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The three estates of the French society sent their representatives to the Parliament. b. The three estates consisted of the clergy (first estate), the nobility (second estate) and peasants, businessmen, lawyers, etc. (third estate). c. The monarch in the Old Regime did not have the power to impose taxes according to his will alone.

  1. a, b and c

  2. a and b

  3. a and c

  4. b and c

  5. a only


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The monarch in the Old Regime did not have the power to impose taxes according to his will alone. He had to call a meeting of the Estates General, which would then pass his proposals for new taxes. The three estates consisted of the clergy (first estate), the nobility (second estate) and peasants, businessmen, lawyers, etc. (third estate).

When was slavery finally abolished in the French colonies?

  1. 1789

  2. 1791

  3. 1794

  4. 1805

  5. 1848


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This answer is correct. Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in 1848.

The Directory that ruled France was an executive made up of five members. Which of the following statements is/are correct about the reign of the Directory?

a. It abolished the monarchy and declared France a republic. b. Under the reign of the Directory, all men aged 21 years and above got the right to vote. c. The Directory was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in a single leader.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and b

  5. a, b and c


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The Directory was meant as a safeguard against the concentration of power in a one-man executive as under the Jacobins.

Which of the following were the French colonies that benefited from the slave trade?

a. Martinique b. Guadeloupe c. San Domingo d. Nantes

  1. a, b, c and d

  2. a, b and c

  3. a, b and d

  4. b, c and d

  5. a, c and d


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The colonies in the Caribbean Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo were important suppliers of commodities such as tobacco, indigo, sugar and coffee. They lacked labour and the flourishing slave trade benefited them as the exploitation of slave labour made it possible to meet the growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee and indigo.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The Constitution of 1791 gave women the right to vote, to be elected to the Assembly and to hold political office. b. However, during the Reign of Terror, the new government issued laws ordering the reversal of voting rights for women. c. Women in France finally won the right to vote in 1946.

  1. a, b and c

  2. a and b

  3. a only

  4. b only

  5. c only


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The women in France won the right to vote in 1946.

Which of the following statements is/are correct about Napolean Bonaparte?

a. He crowned himself the Emperor of France in 1804. b. He introduced a uniform system of weights and measures provided by the decimal system. c. He was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.

  1. a, b and c

  2. a and b

  3. a and c

  4. a only

  5. b only


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as all the statements are correct. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself the Emperor of France in 1804. Napolean introduced a uniform system of weights and measures provided by the decimal system. Napolean was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.

France was known to be under the 'Reign of Terror' under whose leadership?

  1. Louis XVI

  2. Maximilien Robespierre

  3. Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

  4. Jean-Paul Marat

  5. Napoleon Bonaparte


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. He was the leader of the radical Jacobins in the National Assembly. It was under his leadership that France was under the Reign of Terror from 1793 to 1794 as he attempted to silence all enemies of the Revolution in an effort to save France from invasion.

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