Class IX - History
Chapter: The French Revolution
Advanced Level Question Paper
Total Marks: 40 | All questions are of 1 mark each
Section A: Multiple Choice Questions (1 mark each)
(Attempt all 20)
1. The Estates General was last convened in:
a) 1614 b) 1789 c) 1815 d) 1604
2. The tax called Tithe was collected by:
a) Nobles b) King c) Church d) Merchants
3. The Bastille was stormed on:
a) 4th August 1789 b) 5th May 1789 c) 14th July 1789 d) 14th July 1799
4. Sans-Culottes were:
a) Nobles in disguise b) Radical workers c) Women protestors d) Elite guards
5. The National Anthem of France is:
a) Liberty March b) La Marseillaise c) Bastille Song d) Red Flag
6. Guillotine refers to:
a) Sword of monarchy b) Type of tax c) Beheading device d) Political club
7. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed:
a) Freedom of press b) Equality before law c) Right to life d) All of these
8. The Jacobin leader was:
a) Marat b) Robespierre c) Danton d) Napoleon
9. Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo in:
a) 1812 b) 1815 c) 1804 d) 1789
10. The Third Estate included:
a) Clergy b) Nobles c) Commoners d) Royal family
11. The Constitution of 1791 made France:
a) Communist b) Constitutional Monarchy c) Republic d) Empire
12. The French Revolution slogan Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was:
a) Coined by nobles b) Promoted by monarchy c) Basis of new France d) Inspired by
Napoleon
13. Directory was a:
a) Military alliance b) Five-member executive body c) Royal guard d) Trade route
14. Which philosopher proposed separation of power?
a) Rousseau b) Voltaire c) Montesquieu d) Marat
15. Who wrote "What is the Third Estate?"
a) Robespierre b) Rousseau c) Abbe Sieyes d) John Locke
16. Red Cap worn by Sans-Culottes symbolised:
a) Terror b) Freedom c) Monarchy d) Religion
17. The draft of the Constitution was completed in:
a) 1794 b) 1789 c) 1791 d) 1804
18. What was the direct tax paid by peasants?
a) Livre b) Tithe c) Taille d) Gabelle
19. The term Old Regime refers to:
a) Post-revolution society b) French monarchy before 1789 c) Military rule d) American
government
20. National Assembly was formed on:
a) 14th July b) 5th May c) 20th June d) 4th August
Section B: Correct/Incorrect with Explanation (1 mark each)
(Write C for Correct and I for Incorrect. Give one-line explanation.)
21. The clergy and nobility paid the highest taxes in pre-revolutionary France.
22. Marat was the editor of the revolutionary paper L'Ami du peuple.
23. Rousseau refuted the divine right of kings in The Spirit of Laws.
24. The women in France got the right to vote immediately after the revolution.
25. The Estates General was a judicial body in France before 1789.
Section C: Assertion and Reason (1 mark each)
Choose:
(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.
26. A: Louis XVI increased taxes because France was under massive debt.
R: France had helped the American colonies during their war of independence.
27. A: Voting in the Estates General was done by one vote per estate.
R: This voting system favoured the Third Estate.
28. A: The storming of Bastille was a symbolic event of the revolution.
R: It represented the collapse of feudal privileges.
29. A: Robespierre introduced the Reign of Terror.
R: He followed a policy of severe control and punishment.
30. A: The constitution of 1791 granted universal adult franchise.
R: Women and passive citizens could not vote under this constitution.
