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CHAPTER 1: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS [1 MARK]

Q.1 The Third Estate comprised

(a) Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers (b) Peasants and artisan

(c) Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc. (d) All the above

Q.2.That ‘each member should have one vote’ was advocated by:

(a) Georges Danton (b) Rousseau (c) Jean Paul Marat (d) the Jacobins

Q.3.Which of the following decisions was taken by the convention

(a) Declared France a constitutional monarchy (b) Abolished the monarchy

(c) All men and women above 21 years got the right to vote (d) Declared France a Republic

Q.4.Which of the following is not the idea of the revolutionary journalist Desmoulins about

Liberty?

(a) Liberty is finishing off your enemies (b) Liberty is Happiness, Reason, Equality and Justice

(c) Liberty is the Declaration of Right (d) Liberty is not a child who has to be disciplined before maturity

Q.5. How does a ‘Subsistence Crisis’ happen?

(a) Bad harvest leads to scarcity of grains (b) Food prices rise and the poorest cannot buy bread

(c) Leads to weaker bodies, diseases, deaths and even food riots (d) All the above

Q.6. In the war against Prussia and Austria, the army sang which patriotic song

(a) 'Liberty', written by an unknown woman poet(b) ‘Marseillaise’ written by the poet Roget de Lisle

(c) ‘Viva France’ written by a French peasant (d) None of the above

Q7.Which of the following statements is untrue about the Third Estate

(a) The Third Estate was made of the poor only

(b) Within the Third Estate some were rich and some were poor

(c) Richer members of the Third Estate owned lands

(d) Peasants were obliged to serve in the army, or build roads

Q.8. Who wrote the pamphlet called ‘What is the Third Estate’?

(a) Mirabeau, a nobleman (b) Abbe Sieyes (c) Rousseau, a philosopher (d) Montesquieu​

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