EKYA SCHOOLS/CMR NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
GRADE IX SSC HNC
UNIT-FRENCH REVOLUTION
Total Marks: 30 Time: 1 hour Marks Received:
Q No Choose the correct option. Marks
1. Assertion (A): In many ways, the French Revolution was a very significant event in the 1
history of the world.
Reason (R): The French Revolution not only inspired French citizens to take action, but
It inspired many philosophers and leaders across the globe.
Based on the statements provided above, select the most appropriate option below.
a. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c. A is true but R is false.
d. A is false but R is true.
2. In the ‘Spirit of the Laws’, Montesquieu proposed 1
a) A division of powers between the King and the Church.
b) A division of powers between men and women.
c) A division of powers between three organs of the government
d) A division of powers between the King and the peasants.
3. The Estates General was 1
a) The commander, the Chief of the army.
b) Another name of the King of France.
c) A group of women demonstrated on the streets.
d) A political body to which the three estates of the French society
sent their representatives
4. The events which are important in the making of the modern world: 1
i. French revolution
ii. Russian revolution
iii. Rise of Nazism
iv. Chinese Revolution
a. i and iv b. i and iii c. i, ii, and iii d. iii and iv
Q2 Answer the following
i What do you know about the Jacobin club? Name their leader. Why were they known as 2
Sans Culottes?
OR
How did philosophers influence the thinking of the people of France?
ii Write any two outcomes of the French Revolution 2
iii What changes did the revolution of 1789 bring in the everyday life of the people in France? 2
iv Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the people of the world during the 3
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
OR
EKYA SCHOOLS/CMR NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
GRADE IX SSC HNC
UNIT-FRENCH REVOLUTION
“Ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the most important legacy of the French
Revolution”. Explain the statement in the light of the French Revolution.
v Would you agree with the view that the message of universal rights was beset with 3
contradictions? Justify your reasoning.
OR
The inequality that existed in the French Society in the Old Regime became the cause of
the French Revolution”. Justify the statement by giving three suitable examples.
Q3
Study the source above and answer the following questions:
a. Describe the persons represented in the above image – their actions, their
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postures, the objects they are carrying.
b. Examine the symbols that the artist included in the image and on what they stand
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for.
c. Do you think women in India still have stereotypical expectations placed upon
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them by Indian society?
Q4 Answer in detail.
i Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in France. 5
OR
Examine the role women played during the revolutionary years in France.
ii “The Constitution of 1791 began with a Declaration of Rights of Man and 5
Citizen.” Explain these rights.