French Revolution – MCQs (Class 9)
1 to 10 – Causes and Background
1. Which king was ruling France during the French Revolution?
a) Louis XIV
b) Louis XV
c) Louis XVI
d) Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: c) Louis XVI
2. What was the social system in France before the Revolution called?
a) Old Monarchy
b) Feudal Order
c) Old Regime
d) Ancient Monarchy
Answer: c) Old Regime
3. How many Estates were there in pre-revolutionary France?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five
Answer: b) Three
4. The First Estate was made up of:
a) Nobility
b) Clergy
c) Peasants
d) Middle class
Answer: b) Clergy
5. Who paid all the taxes in the Old Regime?
a) Nobility and clergy
b) Clergy only
c) Commoners
d) Nobility only
Answer: c) Commoners
6. What was the tax paid directly to the state called?
a) Taille
b) Tithe
c) Gabelle
d) Feudal dues
Answer: a) Taille
7. What was the tax on salt called in France?
a) Gabelle
b) Taille
c) Salt Tax
d) Feud tax
Answer: a) Gabelle
8. Which intellectual movement inspired the French Revolution?
a) Renaissance
b) Enlightenment
c) Reformation
d) Industrial Revolution
Answer: b) Enlightenment
9. Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws?
a) Voltaire
b) Montesquieu
c) Rousseau
d) John Locke
Answer: b) Montesquieu
10. Rousseau’s book The Social Contract proposed:
a) Separation of powers
b) Popular sovereignty
c) Divine right of kings
d) Military rule
Answer: b) Popular sovereignty
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11 to 20 – Revolution Begins
11. Which meeting was called by Louis XVI in 1789 to discuss the financial crisis?
a) Estates General
b) National Assembly
c) Constituent Assembly
d) Legislative Assembly
Answer: a) Estates General
12. Where did the Third Estate gather after being locked out of the Estates General?
a) Versailles Garden
b) Bastille Prison
c) Tennis Court
d) National Hall
Answer: c) Tennis Court
13. The Tennis Court Oath was taken in:
a) May 1789
b) June 1789
c) July 1789
d) August 1789
Answer: b) June 1789
14. The Bastille was stormed on:
a) 4 July 1789
b) 14 July 1789
c) 10 August 1789
d) 21 January 1793
Answer: b) 14 July 1789
15. The storming of Bastille is celebrated as:
a) France’s Independence Day
b) Bastille Day
c) National Army Day
d) Liberation Day
Answer: b) Bastille Day
16. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted in:
a) July 1789
b) August 1789
c) September 1789
d) October 1789
Answer: b) August 1789
17. Who was the queen of France during the French Revolution?
a) Anne Boleyn
b) Marie Antoinette
c) Catherine the Great
d) Isabella I
Answer: b) Marie Antoinette
18. The National Assembly’s main aim was to:
a) Protect monarchy
b) Draft a constitution
c) Raise taxes
d) Increase clergy powers
Answer: b) Draft a constitution
19. What was the main demand of the women’s march to Versailles in October 1789?
a) End of monarchy
b) Lower bread prices
c) New constitution
d) End of war
Answer: b) Lower bread prices
20. Which document ended the privileges of the First and Second Estates?
a) Civil Code of 1804
b) August Decrees
c) Tennis Court Oath
d) Constitution of 1791
Answer: b) August Decrees
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21 to 30 – Political Changes
21. The Constitution of 1791 established:
a) Absolute monarchy
b) Constitutional monarchy
c) Republic
d) Military dictatorship
Answer: b) Constitutional monarchy
22. Who had the right to vote under the 1791 Constitution?
a) All men and women
b) Only property-owning men above 25
c) Only nobles
d) All citizens above 18
Answer: b) Only property-owning men above 25
23. France was declared a republic in:
a) 1789
b) 1791
c) 1792
d) 1793
Answer: c) 1792
24. Louis XVI was executed in:
a) January 1793
b) March 1793
c) July 1794
d) October 1793
Answer: a) January 1793
25. Who became leader of the Jacobins during the Reign of Terror?
a) Danton
b) Marat
c) Robespierre
d) Napoleon
Answer: c) Robespierre
26. The period of Robespierre’s rule (1793–1794) is known as:
a) The Great Fear
b) Reign of Terror
c) Age of Enlightenment
d) Directory Period
Answer: b) Reign of Terror
27. The law of maximum fixed:
a) Maximum wages
b) Maximum prices for food items
c) Maximum land ownership
d) Maximum number of voters
Answer: b) Maximum prices for food items
28. Which revolutionary group wore long trousers?
a) Girondins
b) Jacobins
c) Sans-culottes
d) Monarchists
Answer: c) Sans-culottes
29. Which assembly replaced the National Convention after Robespierre’s fall?
a) National Assembly
b) Directory
c) Legislative Assembly
d) Senate
Answer: b) Directory
30. The Directory ruled France from:
a) 1794–1795
b) 1795–1799
c) 1799–1804
d) 1789–1791
Answer: b) 1795–1799
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31 to 40 – Napoleon and Outcomes
31. Napoleon Bonaparte came to power in:
a) 1795
b) 1797
c) 1799
d) 1804
Answer: c) 1799
32. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor in:
a) 1799
b) 1802
c) 1804
d) 1815
Answer: c) 1804
33. Which code of laws was introduced by Napoleon?
a) Civil Code of 1804
b) Napoleonic Military Code
c) Code of Justice
d) Liberty Code
Answer: a) Civil Code of 1804
34. Which principle was not part of the French Revolution’s ideals?
a) Liberty
b) Equality
c) Fraternity
d) Divine right of kings
Answer: d) Divine right of kings
35. The tricolour French flag represents:
a) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
b) King, Clergy, People
c) War, Peace, Unity
d) Monarchy, Nobility, Commoners
Answer: a) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
36. Which countries formed coalitions against revolutionary France?
a) Britain, Austria, Prussia
b) Italy, Spain, Portugal
c) USA, Russia, Britain
d) Germany, Italy, Austria
Answer: a) Britain, Austria, Prussia
37. Which colony’s revolt led to the abolition of slavery in French colonies?
a) Haiti
b) Martinique
c) Guadeloupe
d) Reunion
Answer: a) Haiti
38. Who led the Haitian independence movement?
a) Toussaint Louverture
b) Simon Bolivar
c) Jose de San Martin
d) Dessalines
Answer: a) Toussaint Louverture
39. Slavery was reintroduced by Napoleon in:
a) 1802
b) 1804
c) 1806
d) 1810
Answer: a) 1802
40. France became a monarchy again in:
a) 1815
b) 1820
c) 1830
d) 1848
Answer: a) 1815
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41 to 50 – Miscellaneous
41. What was the national anthem of France during the Revolution?
a) La Vie en Rose
b) La Marseillaise
c) God Save the King
d) Chant du Départ
Answer: b) La Marseillaise
42. Which colour in the French flag represents liberty?
a) Blue
b) White
c) Red
d) Green
Answer: a) Blue
43. Which revolutionary club was most radical?
a) Jacobins
b) Girondins
c) Feuillants
d) Royalists
Answer: a) Jacobins
44. What was the currency of France during the Revolution?
a) Franc
b) Livre
c) Pound
d) Euro
Answer: b) Livre
45. Which estate had to perform forced labour?
a) First Estate
b) Second Estate
c) Third Estate
d) Clergy
Answer: c) Third Estate
46. Who wrote Two Treatises of Government?
a) Montesquieu
b) John Locke
c) Rousseau
d) Voltaire
Answer: b) John Locke
47. Voltaire is famous for advocating:
a) Separation of powers
b) Freedom of speech and religion
c) Right to property
d) Absolute monarchy
Answer: b) Freedom of speech and religion
48. Which revolutionary calendar replaced the Christian calendar?
a) Republican Calendar
b) Revolutionary Calendar
c) Jacobin Calendar
d) Liberty Calendar
Answer: a) Republican Calendar
49. The French Revolution began in which year?
a) 1776
b) 1789
c) 1792
d) 1804
Answer: b) 1789
50. The main legacy of the French Revolution was:
a) Spread of feudalism
b) Spread of monarchy
c) Spread of democratic ideals
d) Spread of colonialism
Answer: c) Spread of democratic ideals
