This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > History > The French Revolution > Class 9 History Chapter 1 The French Revolution – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 History Chapter 1 The French Revolution Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One cause of the French Revolution was the emergence of a new middle class of merchants and professionals called the A) Panty. B) Aristocracy. C) Bourgeoisie. D) Outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bourgeoisie. 2. Who all were given the right to vote? A) Women above 25 years of age who paid taxes equal to 3 days of a labourer's wage. B) Men above 25 years of age who paid taxes equal to 3 days of a labourer's wage. C) Passive citizens. D) Elector. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Men above 25 years of age who paid taxes equal to 3 days of a labourer's wage. 3. When the women in France got the Right to vote? A) In 1784. B) In 1847. C) In 1946. D) In 1947. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In 1946. 4. The time when French peasants armed with pitchforks and other farm tools broke into nobles' houses all over France is known as ..... A) The Reign of Fear. B) The Reign of Terror. C) The Great Panic. D) The Great Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Great Fear. 5. When did France get the right to vote? A) 1946. B) 1948. C) 1945. D) 1947. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1946. 6. When Louis XVI ascended the throne of France? A) 1776. B) 1773. C) 1775. D) 1774. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1774. 7. Which of these did not belong to the Jacobin Club? A) Nobles. B) Servants. C) Printers. D) Daily wage earners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nobles. 8. Which of the following constituted the privileged class? A) First and Third Estate. B) Clergy and Nobility. C) Clergy and Peasants. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clergy and Nobility. 9. When did slavery in France got abolished? A) 1847. B) 1748. C) 1865. D) 1848. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1848. 10. How far away is Versailles from Paris? A) 50 miles. B) 1, 000 miles. C) 13 miles. D) 1 mile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13 miles. 11. The ..... took place when the 3rd estate swore to write a constitution. A) Tennis Court Oath. B) Scorched Earth. C) Estates General. D) Storming of the Bastillee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennis Court Oath. 12. Voting rights were only given to men who were 18 years old. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Why is the period from 1793 to 1794 referred to as the 'Reign of Terror'? A) France facing economic crisis. B) Neighbouring countries attacked France. C) Robespierre followed a policy of severe control and punishment. D) Corruption prevailed everywhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robespierre followed a policy of severe control and punishment. 14. In which year did Assembly vote to declare war against Prussia and Austria? A) April 1789. B) April 1792. C) April 1790. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) April 1792. 15. Upon becoming free, the slave wore: A) Red cap. B) Green cap. C) Blue cap. D) White cap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red cap. 16. What was the name of the machine used to kill king Louis XVI? A) Blender. B) Reign of terror. C) Guillotine. D) Olympe de Gouges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guillotine. 17. How many women marched to Versailles demanding to be heard? A) 6, 000. B) 10, 000. C) 500. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6, 000. 18. What role did bread play in the French Revolution A) Poor Harvest led to higher bread prices and the poor could not afford to buy bread. B) The King put a tax on bread. C) The people were angry they were forced to buy stale bread. D) The Third Estate did not want to eat bread anymore but were being forced to by the First and Second Estates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poor Harvest led to higher bread prices and the poor could not afford to buy bread. 19. How many prisoners were there in bastille A) 7. B) 31. C) 50. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 20. Which group of people did not join the Jacobin club? A) Daily-wage workers. B) Shopkeepers. C) Men with property. D) Artisans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Men with property. 21. Peasants made up about ..... Of the Population A) 90%. B) 75%. C) 0%. D) 50%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 90%. 22. Members of the Jacobin Club were known as A) Terrorists. B) San-culottes. C) Revolutionaries. D) Conservatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) San-culottes. 23. This group was comprised of rich nobles who owned 20% of the land and paid almost no taxes. A) First Estate. B) Second Estate. C) Third Estate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second Estate. 24. Who re-introduced slavery after 10 years? A) Robespierre. B) Napoleon. C) Louis Alexandre Berthier. D) Louis Gabriel Suchet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Napoleon. 25. The people in France pledged to continue meeting until a constitution was established. What was this called? A) General council. B) The royalist agreement. C) The clergy. D) The tennis court oath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The tennis court oath. 26. What is the name for the prison in Paris during the French Revolution? A) Assembly. B) Estate. C) Bastille. D) Jail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bastille. 27. Between which years the region of terror was going on? A) 1223-1333. B) 1200-1900. C) 1456-1890. D) 1793-1794. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1793-1794. 28. In the early years, the government did introduce laws that helped improve the lives of women. Which government it was? A) Revolutionary government. B) Napoleon government. C) Jacobin government. D) Directory government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Revolutionary government. 29. On the morning of ..... the people stormed into the Palace of Tuileries and held the king hostage. A) 25th September. B) 9th August. C) 4th October. D) 10th August. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10th August. 30. What is the taille? A) Harvest taxes. B) Healthcare taxes. C) Property and land taxes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Property and land taxes. 31. The writer of 'Two Treatises of Government' is: A) Jean Jacques Rousseau. B) Montesquieu. C) John Locke. D) Mirabeau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Locke. 32. Assertion (A):The revolutionary wars brought losses and economic difficulties to the people.Reason (R):While the men were away fighting at the front, women were left to cope with the tasks of earning a living and looking after their families. A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). C) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong. D) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). 33. This Document was written by the National Assembly and gave the people of France the rights to "Liberty, Property, Security, and Resistance to Oppression." A) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. B) France's Fancy List of Rights. C) The Great Declaration. D) The King's Declaration of Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. 34. Louis XVI ascended the throne of France In the year of A) 1775. B) 1774. C) 1779. D) 1778. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1774. 35. What is the name of the document passed by the National Assembly? A) The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens. B) US Constituion. C) Tennis Court Oath. D) English Bill of Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens. 36. What kind of leader was King Louis XVI? A) Very militaristic. B) Weak and indecisive. C) Powerful and well respected. D) Friendly and well-liked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weak and indecisive. 37. Where and when was Napolean Bonaparte defeated? A) Versailles, 1804. B) Waterloo, 1815. C) Place de la Concorde, 1792. D) Marseilles, 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Waterloo, 1815. 38. On August 10 Jacobins stormed the Palace of the ..... A) Tuileries. B) France. C) Russia. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tuileries. 39. Who were 'active citizens'? A) Citizens entitled to protest. B) Citizens entitled to accumulate wealth. C) Citizens entitled to be free. D) Citizens entitled to vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Citizens entitled to vote. 40. King in France at the time of the Revolution A) Louisxi. B) Louis XVI. C) Marie Antoinette. D) Nicholas II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louis XVI. 41. Which was not a cause of the French Revolution? A) France was broke from fighting wars. B) Louis & Marie spent too much money. C) People were upset at the beheading of the King. D) There was not enough food for the people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People were upset at the beheading of the King. 42. Which of the following is true about the Clergy and Nobles? A) They were exempted from paying many of the taxes. B) They enjoyed number of privileges. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All the above. 43. Who composed the National Anthem of France? A) The Rob of The Isle. B) Louis XVI. C) Maximilian Robespierre. D) Naples Bonaparte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Rob of The Isle. 44. Under the Old Regime in France, the burden of taxation fell mostly on the ..... A) Monarchy. B) Clergy. C) Commoners. D) Nobles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commoners. 45. True or False:Other countries rushed to help the people in their revolution. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 46. The ideas of Philosophers were discussed intensively in ..... A) Tennis Courts. B) Schools. C) Coffee houses. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coffee houses. 47. Ideas on government inspire calls for? A) Change. B) Mass executions. C) No taxes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change. 48. Why were the women disappointed by the constitution of 1791 in France? A) It reduces them to passive citizen. B) It restricted them to get employment. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It reduces them to passive citizen. 49. When did the Slave Trade begin? A) Fifteenth century. B) Seventeenth century. C) Eighteenth century. D) Nineteenth century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seventeenth century. 50. What was the slogan of the French Revolution? A) Liberty, Fraternity, Unity. B) Equality, Justice, Fraternity. C) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. D) Liberty, Equality, Justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. 51. Castle or stately residence belonging to a king or noble A) Size. B) The social Contract. C) Tithe. D) Chateaux. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chateaux. 52. The reign of terror- A) 1793-97. B) 1793-95. C) 1793-94. D) 1792-94. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1793-94. 53. Who formed the 3rd estate? A) Nobility. B) Church. C) Others(merchants, lawyers, etc ). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Others(merchants, lawyers, etc ). 54. France abolished the monarchy and became a A) Kingdom. B) State. C) Republic. D) Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Republic. 55. The National Assembly framed a constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the A) Wealthy Man. B) Businessman. C) Monarch. D) Press. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monarch. 56. The wife of Louis XVI- A) Robespierre. B) Lady Gaga. C) Marie Antoinette. D) The Bastille. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marie Antoinette. 57. The Second Estate was composed of A) Church leaders. B) Nobility. C) Peasants. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nobility. 58. When the representatives of third estate declared themselves National Assembly? A) On 20 June. B) On 15 August. C) On 19 June. D) On 14 July. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On 20 June. 59. About how much did the nobility number in France? A) 2, 000, 000. B) 350, 000. C) 380, 000. D) 130, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 350, 000. 60. Louis XVI becomes the king of France in the year ..... A) 1789. B) 1774. C) 1805. D) 1814. 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