THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

 MADE BY- ANKIT-SINGH-BOORA

Class IX-A

ROLL NUMNER-6

Q.1 Who proposed a division of power within the government between a legislative assembly, Executive and Judiciary?

Ans.1 Montesquieu.

Q.2 Which fort was destroyed by people in 1789?

Ans.2 Bastille fort

Q.3 Name the tax collected by church?

Ans.3 Tithe

Q.4 Name the tax paid directly to state?

Ans.4 Taille.

Q.5 Name the term used to describe the building and institutions before 1789?

Ans.5 Old regime.

Q.6 What was unit of currency in France which was discontinued in 1794?

Ans.6 Livre

Q.7 In which year Louis XVI ascended the throne of France?

Ans.7 1774

Q.8 From which family Louis XVI belonged?

Ans.8 Bourbon Family.

Q.9 Name the wife of Louis XVI?

Ans.9 Marie Antoinette.

Q.10 Name the Englishmen traveled through France in 1787  to 1789?

Ans.10 Arthur young.

Q.11 Who had written the ‘Social contact’?

Ans.11 Rousseau.

Q.12 When did people stormed Bastille fort?

Ans.12  14-July1789.

Q.13 Name the book written by Montesquieu.?

Ans.13 ‘The spirit of new laws’.

Q.14 How many American colonies gain the Independence under Louis XVI?

Ans.14- 13

Q.15 Name the place where ideas of the philosophers were shared?

Ans.15 Tennis court

Q.16 A poltical body to which the members of the third estate sent their representative?

Ans.16 Estate Genral

Q.17 Which philosopher gave the idea each member have one vote?

Ans.17 Rousseau.

Q.18 When did Louis XVI called the meeting of Estate Genral?

Ans.18. 5 May 1789

Q.19  On which date the member of the third estate meet in the Tennis court?

Ans.19 20 June 1789.

Q.20 Name the place where the people assembled in tennis court?

Ans.20 Versailles.

Q.21  Who had written the pamphlet ‘what is third estate?

Ans21. Abb’e Sieye’s. 

        French Revolution

            Question paper   

                                                   By              Kaushiki                Class – IX-B

One word answer:-

1.  What was the day when the assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations and taxes?                     answer- 4th august, 1789

2.  It is a symbol of eternity. A ring has neither beginning nor end.           Name it?                                                answer- snake biting its tail to form a ring

3.  Name the two famous women club in France?                     answer-The society of revolutionary and Republican Women

4.  Name the word which means ‘the act of freeing’?           answer-Emancipation

5.  Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated where and in which year?                                                   answer- Waterloo, 1815

Fill in the Blanks:-

1.  ________ was convicted by a court in July 1794, arrested and on the next day sent to guillotine.                         answer- Maximilian Robespierre

2.  The period of _____ to ______ is referred as the “Reign Of Terror”.                                            answer- 1793- 1794

3.  Composer of the National Anthem of France is _______.       answer- Roget de L'isle

4.  _____________ is meant as the personification of the law.          answer- The winged woman

5.  Slavery was finally abolished from French colonies in _____.                                              answer- 1848

1 mark Questions-French revolution

                                                By- Aanchal Patel   Class- IX B

Q-1- Who wrote the book ‘Spirit of Laws’?

Ans-Charles de Montesquieu

Q-2-Name the tax that is paid directly to the state.

Ans-Taille

Q-3-Who composed the national anthem of France?

Ans- Roget de L’Iisle

Q-4-Who is the leader of Jacobin club?

Ans-Maximilian Robespierre

Q-5-The period from 1793 to 1794 is referred as ………………

Ans- Reign of terror

Q-6-when the women in France won the right to vote?

Ans-1946

Q-7- Name the national anthem of France.

Ans- Marseillaise

Q-8-Name the tax levied by the church, comprising one – tenth of the agricultural produce.

Ans-Tithe

Q-9-who wrote the book ‘Social contract’?

Ans-Jean Jack Rousseau

Q-10-When and where Louis XIV was publicly executed?

Ans-21 January 1793, place de la Concorde

Q-11-Who wrote the book ‘Two treatises of government’?

Ans-John Locke