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