Extra 40 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) chapter:1 "The French Revolution" for Class 9 History (CBSE):-
What was the social system in France before the Revolution called?
(a) Feudalism
(b) Manorialism
(c) Estate System
(d) Republicanism
Answer:
(c) Estate System
Which estate comprised the clergy?
(a) First Estate
(b) Second Estate
(c) Third Estate
(d) Fourth Estate
Answer:
(a) First Estate
Which estate comprised the nobility?
(a) First Estate
(b) Second Estate
(c) Third Estate
(d) Fourth Estate
Answer:
(b) Second Estate
Which estate comprised the peasants, artisans, and merchants?
(a) First Estate
(b) Second Estate
(c) Third Estate
(d) Fourth Estate
Answer:
(c) Third Estate
Who was the ruler of France during the French Revolution?
(a) Napoleon Bonaparte
(b) Louis XIV
(c) Louis XVI
(d) Robespierre
Answer:
(c) Louis XVI
What was the name of the tax paid directly to the state?
(a) Tithes
(b)
Taille
(c) Feudal dues
(d) Livres
Answer:
(b)
Taille
What was the tax levied by the Church called?
(a)
Taille
(b) Livres
(c) Tithes
(d) Dues
Answer:
(c) Tithes
The storming of the Bastille took place on:
(a) July 4, 1789
(b) July 14, 1789
(c) August 14, 1789
(d) June 14, 1789
Answer:
(b) July 14, 1789
What did the Bastille symbolize?
(a) Royal power
(b) Church authority
(c) Economic prosperity
(d) Peasant revolt
Answer:
(a) Royal power
The National Assembly was formed by:
(a) First Estate
(b) Second Estate
(c) Third Estate
(d) The King
Answer:
(c) Third Estate
The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen' was proclaimed in:
(a) 1789
(b) 1791
(c) 1793
(d) 1795
Answer:
(a) 1789
Who was the leader of the Jacobin Club?
(a) Louis XVI
(b) Mirabeau
(c) Robespierre
(d) Napoleon
Answer:
(c) Robespierre
The 'Reign of Terror' is associated with:
(a) Louis XIV
(b) Louis XVI
(c) Robespierre
(d) Napoleon
Answer:
(c) Robespierre
What was the 'guillotine' used for?
(a) Taxation
(b) Execution
(c) Celebration
(d) Farming
Answer:
(b) Execution
Which year did France become a republic?
(a) 1789
(b) 1791
(c) 1792
(d) 1799
Answer:
(c) 1792
Who crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804?
(a) Louis XVI
(b) Robespierre
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte
(d) Mirabeau
Answer:
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte
What was 'Livres'?
(a) A tax
(b) A currency
(c) A social class
(d) A weapon
Answer:
(b) A currency
The book 'The Social Contract' was written by:
(a) Montesquieu
(b) Rousseau
(c) Voltaire
(d) Mirabeau
Answer:
(b) Rousseau
The book 'The Spirit of the Laws' was written by:
(a) Rousseau
(b) Voltaire
(c) Montesquieu
(d) Robespierre
Answer:
(c) Montesquieu
Which of the following was a cause of the French Revolution?
(a) Economic inequality
(b) Absolute monarchy
(c) Social injustice
(d) All of the above
Answer:
(d) All of the above
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
(a) An agreement to storm the Bastille
(b) A pledge to create a new constitution
(c) A royal decree
(d) A religious ceremony
Answer:
(b) A pledge to create a new constitution
What was the primary food source of the poor in France?
(a) Meat
(b) Bread
(c) Vegetables
(d) Fruit
Answer:
(b) Bread
What was the name of the political body that Louis XVI called together to pass new taxes?
(a) National Assembly
(b) Estates General
(c) Jacobin Club
(d) Directory
Answer:
(b) Estates General
What political philosophy did the French Revolution promote?
(a) Absolutism
(b) Republicanism
(c) Feudalism
(d) Monarchy
Answer:
(b) Republicanism
What was the Directory?
(a) A royal court
(b) A revolutionary army
(c) A five-member executive body
(d) A religious order
Answer:
(c) A five-member executive body
What was the main result of the French revolution?
(a) The
strengthing
of the monarchy.
(b) The rise of Napoleon.
(c) The end of the
French
monarchy.
(d) The increase of the churches power.
Answer:
(c) The end of the
French
monarchy.
What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
(a) Peace, Land, Bread
(b) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
(c) Power to the People
(d) God, Glory, Gold
Answer:
(b) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
What was the result of the women's marches to Versailles?
(a) The King was executed
(b) The King agreed to share power.
(c) The King and his family were brought to
Paris
.
(d) The National Assembly was dissolved.
Answer:
(c) The King and his family were brought to
Paris
.
What was the name of the political club that included
Robespierre
?
(a) The Girondins
(b) The Jacobins
(c) The Royalists
(d) The Nationalists
Answer:
(b) The Jacobins.
What was the name of the French queens from Austria, that was executed during the revolution?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) Marie Antoinette.
(d) Catherine the Great.
Answer:
(c) Marie Antoinette.
What was the name of the new voting system put into place by the national assembly?
(a) Universal Male
Suffrage
(b) Estate based voting.
(c) A direct democracy.
(d) Limited voting based on property.
Answer:
(d) Limited voting based on property.
What was the name of the new French national anthem?
(a) La Marseillaise
(b) God save the king.
(c) The
Internationale
.
(d) Hail to the chief.
Answer:
(a) La Marseillaise.
What was the name of the document that the national assembly wrote?
(a) The bill of rights.
(b) The Magna Carta.
(c) The declaration of the rights of man and citizen.
(d) The constitution.
Answer:
(c) The declaration of the rights of man and citizen.
What was the name of the political group that
favoured
a constitutional monarchy?
(a) The Jacobins.
(b) The Girondins.
(c) The Royalists.
(d) The Sans-Culottes.
Answer:
(b) The Girondins.
What was the name of the
working class
people of Paris that supported the Jacobins?
(a) The Girondins.
(b) The Royalists.
(c) The Sans-Culottes.
(d) The Nobles.
Answer:
(c) The Sans-Culottes.
What year did Napoleon Bonaparte become first consul?
(a) 1789
(b) 1792
(c) 1799
(d) 1804
Answer:
(c) 1799.
What was the Napoleonic code?
(a) A military strategy.
(b) A set of laws.
(c)
A
economic plan.
(d) A political treaty.
Answer:
(b) A set of laws.
What was the name of the battle that Napoleon was finally defeated in?
(a) Battle of Austerlitz.
(b) Battle of Trafalgar.
(c) Battle of Waterloo.
(d) Battle of Borodino.
Answer:
(c) Battle of Waterloo.
What was the name of the period of time when many people
where
executed?
(a) The great depression.
(b) The renaissance.
(c) The reign of terror.
(d) The enlightenment.
Answer:
(c) The reign of terror.
What was the name of the political philosopher that supported the idea of separation of powers?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Montesquieu.
(d) Diderot.
Answer:
(c) Montesquieu.
