MCQs – Class 9 History Chapter 1: The
French Revolution
1. When did the French Revolution begin?
a) 1789
b) 1776
c) 1804
d) 1799
Answer: a) 1789
2. Who was the ruler of France during the French Revolution?
a) Louis XVI
b) Napoleon Bonaparte
c) Louis XIV
d) Marie Antoinette
Answer: a) Louis XVI
3. Which social group carried the burden of taxes in France before the Revolution?
a) Clergy
b) Nobility
c) Third Estate (common people)
d) First Estate
Answer: c) Third Estate (common people)
4. What was the name of the fortress prison stormed by the revolutionaries?
a) Versailles
b) Bastille
c) Tuileries
d) Louvre
Answer: b) Bastille
5. Which document proclaimed freedom of speech, equality, and liberty in France?
a) Declaration of the Rights of Woman
b) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
c) Magna Carta
d) Civil Code
Answer: b) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
6. Which Estate was known as the Nobility?
a) First Estate
b) Second Estate
c) Third Estate
d) Fourth Estate
Answer: b) Second Estate
7. Who authored 'The Social Contract', which influenced the Revolution?
a) Montesquieu
b) Rousseau
c) Voltaire
d) John Locke
Answer: b) Rousseau
8. Which event is considered the start of the French Revolution?
a) Execution of Louis XVI
b) Storming of the Bastille
c) Tennis Court Oath
d) Women’s March to Versailles
Answer: b) Storming of the Bastille
9. What is 'subsistence crisis'?
a) Sudden shortage of military equipment
b) Severe shortage of basic food items
c) Political dispute between Estates
d) Collapse of trade routes
Answer: b) Severe shortage of basic food items
10. What was the new political system called after the fall of monarchy?
a) Monarchy
b) Republic
c) Dictatorship
d) Oligarchy
Answer: b) Republic
11. Which group formed the First Estate in French society?
a) Peasants
b) Clergy
c) Nobility
d) Middle Class
Answer: b) Clergy
12. Who were the Sans-culottes?
a) Nobles
b) Wealthy Merchants
c) Radical poor people of Paris
d) Royal Army Officers
Answer: c) Radical poor people of Paris
13. Which philosopher believed in separation of powers in government?
a) Rousseau
b) Voltaire
c) Montesquieu
d) Locke
Answer: c) Montesquieu
14. Which symbol became associated with freedom during the French Revolution?
a) Red Phrygian cap
b) White lily
c) Blue flag
d) Black cat
Answer: a) Red Phrygian cap
15. Which of these was a cause of the French Revolution?
a) Expansion of colonies
b) Inequality in society
c) Industrial Revolution
d) Discovery of America
Answer: b) Inequality in society
16. Who led the Jacobin Club?
a) Robespierre
b) Napoleon Bonaparte
c) Louis XVI
d) Lafayette
Answer: a) Robespierre
17. What was the Tithe?
a) Tax paid to the king
b) Tax paid to the church
c) Tax paid on salt
d) Tax on foreign goods
Answer: b) Tax paid to the church
18. What does 'Livre' refer to?
a) A tax
b) A French coin (currency)
c) A political club
d) A food item
Answer: b) A French coin (currency)
19. The period from 1793 to 1794 in France is known as:
a) Age of Enlightenment
b) Age of Revolutions
c) Reign of Terror
d) Directory Period
Answer: c) Reign of Terror
20. What was the name of the machine used to execute people during the French Revolution?
a) Guillotine
b) Musket
c) Cannon
d) Pike
Answer: a) Guillotine
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