1. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ONE WORD OR A SENTENCE.
Q.1. (i)What was the age of Louis XVI when he got married?
(ii)Marie Antoinette belonged to which country ?
Ans. (i) 20 years (ii) Austria
Q.2.Name the unit of currency in France that was discontinued in 1794.
Ans. Livre
Q.3.What was the population of France in the year 1789?
Ans. 28 million
Q.4.When did Louis XVI call together an assembly of Estate Generals to pass proposals for new taxes?
Ans. 5th May’1789
Q.5.Who was the leader of the National Assembly?
Ans.Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes
Q.6.Name the influential pamphlet which was written by Abbe Sieyes.
Ans.’What is the Third Estate’?
Q.7.What is the National Anthem of France?
Ans. Marseillaise.
Q.8.What is the meaning of pain d’eglite?
Ans.Equality Bread.
Q.9.When did the women in France get the Right to vote?
Ans.1946.
Q.10.Nme the journalist whose newspaper was L’Ami du people.
Ans.Jean Paul Marat.
Q.11.Name the military dictator who became the emperor of France in 1804.
Ans.Napoleon Bonaparte.
Q.12.Write the term used for the indigenous people of Africa south of Sahara.
Ans.Negroes.
Q.13.When was Robespierre guillotined?
Ans. July, 1794.
Q.14.Name two Indian kings who were inspired by the ideas coming from revolutionary France.
Ans. (i)Raja Rammohan Roy (ii) Tipu Sultan
Q.15.Which period in the history of France is referred to as the Reign of Terror?
Ans.1793 to 1794
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