Chapter-1

The French Revolution

(Worksheet)

Objective/Very Short Answer Type Questions

1. On which day was Paris on alarm?

2. Whom did the king command to move into the city?

3. What rumour spread in Paris?

4. _______________men and women gathered in front of the town hall.

5. Why did they break into a number of government buildings?

6. Why did a group of several hundred people storm the fortress prison Bastille?

7. ___________ prisoners were there in Bastille.

8. Why was Bastille hated by all?

9. Who bought the stone fragments of Bastille?

10. __________became the king of France in 1774.

11. The king belonged to the ____________family.

12. At what age did Louis XVI become the king of France?

a) 25 b) 20 c) 30 d) 35

13. King Louis XVI was married to ___________.

14. Upon his (Louis XVI) accession, what did he find?

15. Whom did France help under Louis XVI to gain their independence?

16. What do you mean by the term Old Regime?

17. How many peasants were there in France?

 a) 90% b) 60% c) 75% d) 85%

18. What do you mean by the term “Tithes”?

19. Who were the members of the first two estates?

20. What was the direct tax called?

21. The __________ alone had the burden of taxes.

22. What services were the peasants obliged to render to the lord?

23. What was the population of France in 1715?

a) 23 million b) 25 million c)28 million d)30 million

24. What was the population of France in 1789?

25. What was the staple food of the people of France?

26. What is Subsistence Crisis?

27. What idea did the philosopher John Locke give?

28. What idea did the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau give?

29. What idea did Montesquieu give?

30. Where were the ideas of the philosophers discussed?
31. Why could the king not pass the proposal for new taxes alone?
32. When was the last time meeting of the estates general called?
33. On_________ Louis XVI called the meeting of the Estates General?
34. Where were the delegates hosted?
35. The first and the second estates sent __________ representatives each.
36. How were the representatives of the first and the second estates seating in the
assembly?

37. How many members were sent by the third estate?

 a) 400 b) 600 c) 700 d) 800

38. Who were standing at the back in the assembly?

39. Who represented the third estate?

40. Who were denied entry to the assembly?

41. How many letters had the representatives of the third estate brought with
themselves?

42. On which principle had the estates general voted in the past?
43. What did the third estate demand?

44. What happened when the king rejected the proposal of the third estate?
45. How did the representatives view themselves?
46. When and where did they assemble?
47. What did the newly declared National Assembly swear?
48. New National Assembly was led by __________ and __________.
49. Who was Mirabeau?

50. What did Mirabeau do?

51. Who was Abbe Sieyes?

52. What was “What is the third estate”?

53. Where was the National Assembly Busy?

54. What had meant a bad harvest?

55. What did the crowds of angry women do after spending hours in long queues?

56. When and by whom was the fortress prison Bastille stormed?

57. What rumour spread in the countryside from village to village?

58. Who were caught in a frenzy of fear?

 a) Peasants b) Artisans c) Lawyers d) Merchants

59. ____________ in several districts seized hoes and pitchforks and attacked
Chateaux.

60. What did the peasants loot?

61. What did the peasants burn?

62. What did the nobles do when the peasants attacked Chateaux?

63. What did Louis XVI finally do?

64. How did the Assembly abolish the feudal system of obligation and taxes?

65. Members of which state were forced to give up their privileges?

66. Whose lands were confiscated?

67 The National Assembly completed the draft constitution in _________.

68. What was the main purpose of the constitution?

69. Who were now assigned the powers instead of being concentrated in one hand?

70. How did France become a constitutional monarchy?

71. Who had the right to choose the National Assembly?

72. Who were Active Citizens?

73. Who were Passive Citizens?

74. What was the eligibility to qualify as an elector and then as a member of the
National Assembly?

75. With what did the constitution of France begin?

76. What were established as “Natural & Inalienable” rights?

77. It was the duty of the ____________ to protect each citizen’s natural rights.
78. What does the broken chain stand for?

79. What does ‘The bundle of rods of fasces’ mean?

80. What do you mean by ‘The eye within a triangle radiating light’?

81. __________ is a symbol of power.

82. What do you mean by “Snake biting its tail to form a ring”?

83. What do you mean by “Red Phrygian Cap”?

84. What are the National Colours of France?

85. What do you mean by “Law Tablet”?

86. What did Louis XVI do after signing the constitution?

87. Against whom did the National Assembly declare war?

88. When did the National Assembly declare war against Prussia & Austria?

89. Why were the rulers of other neighbouring countries worried by the
developments in France?

90. What had the kings of the neighbouring countries planned?

91. The song “Marseillaise”was composed by the poet, ___________.

92. Who sang Marseillaise for the first time?

93. “Marseillaise”is the National Anthem of __________.

a) Austria b) France c) Britain d) Prussia

94. What were the women doing while the men were away fighting at the front?

95. What was the problem with the constitution of France?

96. What were the important rallying points?

97. ____________ was the most successful political club.

98. The Jacobin Club got its name from the former convent of ___________ in Paris.

99. What were the women doing throughout the period?

100. Who were the members of the Jacobin Club?

101. ______________ was the leader of the Jacobin Club.

102. What did the Jacobins start wearing?

103. What were the Jacobins known as/called?

104. What did the sans-culottes men wear in addition?

105. What were the women not allowed to wear?

106. What happened in the palace of Tuileries?

107. What happened to the royal family?

108. The newly elected assembly was called the _____________.

109. When was France declared a republic?

a) On 21 September 1792 b) On 23 September 1793

c) On 20 October 1792 d) On 21 August 1791

110. What do you mean by a republic?

111. What punishment was given to Louis XVI?

112. Where and when was Louis XVI executed?

113. Which period is referred to as the reign of terror?

114. What was Robespierre’s policy?

115. Whom did Robespierre see as being ‘enemies’ of the republic?

116. What happened to those whom Robespierre saw as being enemies of the
republic?

117. What was guillotine?

118. __________ invented guillotine.

119. How did guillotine get its name?

120. What were peasants forced to do?

121. What was forbidden to eat?

122. What were all the citizens required to eat?

123. How else was equality sought to be practiced?

124. Instead of traditional address what were all French men & women called
henceforth?

125. What were the buildings of the churches converted into?

126. What did the supporters of Robespierre begin demanding?

127. When and why was Robespierre arrested?

128. After the fall of the Jacobin Government, __________ got the opportunity to
seize power.

129. When were the non-propertied sections of society once again denied the right to
vote?

130. How many legislative councils were provided in the new constitution?

131. The two legislative council elected the __________.

132. Directory was an executive made up of ________directors (members).

133. What was the reason of the directory to be instable?

134. What paved the way for the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte?
135. How can you say that women were active during the revolution?

136. What did most women of the third estate do?

137. What was the hope of the women involved in the revolution?

138. What did the women work as?

139. What did most women lack?

140. Whose daughters could study at a convent?

141. What was the condition of the working women?

142. Why did women start their own political clubs and newspaper?

143. How many women’s clubs came up in different French cities?

144. Which was the most famous women’s club?

145. What was the main demand of the women?

146. Why were the women disappointed by the Constitution of 1791?

147. What were the demands of the women?

148. What was compulsory for all girls?

149. Who tried to improve the lives of women?

150. What could girls no longer be forced to do?

151. Which law was issued about marriage?

152. Who could apply for divorce now?

153. What things could women do now?

154. When were the women’s clubs closed?

155. What was the condition of the prominent women during the reign of terror?

156. How long did women’s movements for voting rights and equal wages continue?

157. How was the fight for vote carried?

158. Why was the example of the political activities of the French women kept alive?

159. In the year ___________the women of France got the right to vote.

160. Name any one most revolutionary social reform of the Jacobin Regime?

161. Who were the important suppliers of commodities such as tobacco, indigo,
sugar and coffee?

162. Why was there a shortage of labour on the plantations?

163. The slave trade began in the ____________ century.

164. What do you mean by the triangular slave trade?

165. Where did the French merchants buy slaves?

166. How did the French merchants bring slaves to the Caribbean?

167. Who bought the slaves from the French merchants in the Caribbean?

168. How was the growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee and
indigo met?

169. What was the importance of slave trade for port cities like Bordeaux and
Nantes?

170. What did the National Assembly do to abolish slavery?

171. The ______________ in the 1794 legislated to free all slaves in the French
overseas possessions.

172. ___________reintroduced slavery in France.

173. How did the plantation owners understand their freedom?

174. When was slavery finally abolished in French colonies?

a) In 1842 b) In 1844 c) In 1846 d) In 1848

175. Who passed laws to translate the ideals of liberty and equality into everyday
practice?

176. Name any one important law that came into effect soon after the storming of
Bastille?

177. What was proclaimed to be a natural right?

178. What do you mean by the “Freedom of Press”?

179. What attracted a large number of people?

180. __________________ crowned himself emperor of France in 1804.

181. What did Napoleon Bonaparte set out to conquer?

182. What did Napoleon see his role as?

183. Name some laws introduced by Napoleon?

184. What was Napoleon seen as?

185. What were the Napoleonic Armies come to be viewed as?

186. Napoleon was defeated in ___________ at Waterloo.

187. Which revolutionary ideas of Napoleon had a long effect?

188. What was the most important legacy of the French Revolution?

189. Name the two individuals of India who responded to the ideas coming from
revolutionary France?