This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > History > The French Revolution > Class 9 History Chapter 1 The French Revolution – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 History Chapter 1 The French Revolution Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which tax was paid to government A) Tithe. B) TAILEE. C) Size. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Size. 2. Why did King Louis XVI fire Jacques Necker? A) He was getting a divorce from Marie Antoinette. B) He was stealing money from the treasury. C) He was too sympathetic to the people. D) He was leaving the country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was too sympathetic to the people. 3. The National Assembly set down the ideas of the Revolution in A) The Declaration of the Rights of Man. B) The Edict of Nantes. C) The Declaration of Independence. D) The US Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Declaration of the Rights of Man. 4. ..... was a former convent in Paris. A) St. Mary. B) St. Jacob. C) St. Paul. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St. Jacob. 5. True or False:King Louis XVI was the ruling monarch of France during the French Revolution. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Clergy:very wealthy:Did NOT have to pay taxes A) Estate General. B) 1st Estate. C) 2nd Estate. D) 3rd Estate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1st Estate. 7. Where was Louis XVI executed publicly? A) Marseilles. B) Place de la Concorde. C) Versailles. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place de la Concorde. 8. Where did the revolutionists storm for weapons A) The church. B) Bastille. C) The homes of citizens. D) The tennis courts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bastille. 9. When was livre discontinued? A) 1794. B) 1789. C) 1790. D) 1774. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1794. 10. When was Maximilian Robespierre convicted by a court and then sent to the Guillotine? A) June 1794. B) April 1794. C) May 1794. D) July 1794. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) July 1794. 11. According to the constitution of 1791, who were the active citizens and who were the passive citizens? A) Active-Women; Passive-Men and children. B) Active-Men who held property and were of age 21 and above; Passive-Women and children below age 21. C) Active-women who held property; Passive-Men above age 21 and children. D) Active-Children; Passive-Men and Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Active-Men who held property and were of age 21 and above; Passive-Women and children below age 21. 12. Who constituted the third estate? A) Philosophers and authors. B) Clergy and nobility. C) Peasants and artisans. D) Illiterate men and women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peasants and artisans. 13. The burden of financing activities of the state through was borne by the ..... alone A) Clergy. B) Nobality. C) Third estate. D) First estate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third estate. 14. Assertion (A):The period from 1795 to 1798 is referred as the Reign of Terror.Reason (R):Robespierre followed a policy of severe control and punishment. 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). 15. A meeting of monarchs who met at a conference to restore stability in Europe and redraw the map of Europe is known as ..... Hint:#20 from Study Guide A) Congress of Vienna. B) Congress of the Directory. C) Congress of Nobility. D) Congress of the National Assembly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Congress of Vienna. 16. What happened on July 14, Bastille Day? A) Robespierre was executed by guillotine. B) French women marched all the way to Versailles. C) A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mob stormed a prison looking for gunpowder. 17. What percentage of the population made up the Third Estate? A) 97%. B) 50%. C) 3%. D) 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 97%. 18. Maximilian Robespierre was convicted by a court in ..... A) September 1791. B) August 1792. C) February 1774. D) July 1794. E) June 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) July 1794. 19. Because of that population rose in 1715 to 1789. This led to a rapid increase In the demand for A) Money. B) Food grains. C) Job. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food grains. 20. What happened at the Storming of the Bastille? A) A period of mass executions. B) When French women stormed the palace. C) Storming of the French prison.End of the French Revolution. D) Peasants storm a French prison. Beginning of French Rev. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peasants storm a French prison. Beginning of French Rev. 21. Who belonged to the First Estate? A) Clergy. B) Royalty. C) Peasants. D) Nobles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clergy. 22. France on 21st September 1792 was declared a ..... A) Socialist state. B) Republic. C) Democracy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Republic. 23. When did Bastille was demolished? A) 14th July, 1789. B) 26th August 1789. C) 5th May 1789. D) 20th June 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14th July, 1789. 24. In which year Louis XVI came into power? A) 1774. B) 1791. C) 1789. D) 1764. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1774. 25. The Radicals eliminated anyone accused of being against the Revolution during A) Reign of Terror. B) Battle of Waterloo. C) Thermidorian Reaction. D) The Great Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reign of Terror. 26. The term old regime is used to describe ..... A) France before 1000 BC. B) Society of France after 1789. C) Society of France before 1789. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Society of France before 1789. 27. People were executed in the name of supporting the nation through purges of enemies of the general will, what was this called? A) The Reign of Terror. B) The Civil War. C) Directory. D) The French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Reign of Terror. 28. In ..... Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor of France. A) 1803. B) 1805. C) 1804. D) 1806. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1804. 29. Louis XVI entered into secret negotiations with ..... after he had signed the Constitution of Fance. A) The King of Russia. B) The King of Prussia. C) The Queen of England. D) The King of Austria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The King of Prussia. 30. What was a major cause of the French Revolution? A) Economic success of mercantilism. B) Continental System of Europe. C) Inequalities in the tax structure. D) Failure of the Congress of Vienna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inequalities in the tax structure. 31. The Revolution in France established A) Republic. B) Monarchy. C) Oligarchy. D) Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Republic. 32. Who invented guillotine? A) Mr.Guillotine. B) Dr. Guillotin. C) Dr. Guillon Tonam. D) Dr. Guillotine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr. Guillotin. 33. The book 'The Spirit of the Laws' was written by A) John Locke. B) Montesquieu. C) Rousseau. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montesquieu. 34. A bishop (city church leader) belonged to which Estate? A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First. 35. Which estate was primarily made up of nobles that wanted to keep or extend their powers? A) The second estate. B) The final estate. C) The first estate. D) The third estate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The second estate. 36. Into how many estates French society was divided? A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 37. The first and second estates owned ..... A) 10% of the French lands. B) 20% of the French lands. C) 30% of the French lands. D) 50% of the French lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30% of the French lands. 38. The population of France rose from about 23 million in ..... to 28 million in 1789. A) 1716. B) 1715. C) 1777. D) 1714. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1715. 39. Newly elected assembly was known as- A) Convention. B) Monarchy. C) Government. D) Convantion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convention. 40. When did Louis XVI called an assembly of the estate general A) 1614. B) 1789. C) 1735. D) 1778. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1789. 41. Lawyers, craftsmen, merchants, and commoners make up which estate? A) Third Estate. B) Second Estate. C) First Estate. D) Estates General. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Third Estate. 42. Why were there riots in Paris? A) Due to Subsistence Crisis. B) People were protesting against the high price of bread. C) The National Assembly framed a Constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the Monarch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People were protesting against the high price of bread. 43. The third estate attacked a prison looking for guns and ammunition. In the process, they killed all the guards, let the prisoners go, and tore down portions of the old fort brick by brick. This event is known as: A) Reign of Terror. B) Storming of the Bastille. C) The Great Fear. D) Tennis Court Oath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Storming of the Bastille. 44. Which of the following tax is collected by the church for providing community services? A) Tail. B) Tithes. C) Bagha. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tithes. 45. Which estate paid ALL of the taxes in France prior to the French Revolution? A) 1st Estate. B) 2nd Estate. C) 3rd Estate. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd Estate. 46. Which person inspired the 3rd estate to seek power? A) Marie Cloisette. B) Marie Antoinette. C) Abbe Sieyes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abbe Sieyes. 47. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by Court on the treason charge along with Marie Antoinette on A) 21 January 1795. B) 21 January 1792. C) 21 January 1791. D) 21 January 1793. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 21 January 1793. 48. What was the result of King Louis XVI's trial for treason in front of the National Convention? A) Innocent and Exiled. B) Guilty and Hung. C) Innocent and restored as King. D) Guilty and Executed with the Guillotine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guilty and Executed with the Guillotine. 49. The period from 1792 to 1793 is referred to as the Reign of Terror. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 50. Who was Rousseau? A) An Astrologer. B) Leader of Jacobin Club. C) A French Philosopher. D) A Dictator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A French Philosopher. 51. One way in which Robespierre and Napoleon are similar is that they both ..... A) Were executed for treason by French monarchs. B) Led armies against the Haitians. C) Played an important role at the Congress of Vienna. D) Increased their power during the French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased their power during the French Revolution. 52. A group of soldiers who will work for any country or employer that will pay them is called ..... A) Militia. B) Ronins. C) Mercenaries. D) Renegades. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercenaries. 53. The French Revolution began in A) 1798. B) 1789. C) 1876. D) 1776. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1789. 54. In which year did Napolean Bonaparte crown himself the emperor of France? A) 1800. B) 1804. C) 1818. D) 1798. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1804. 55. What was rising in price in France that was primarily the cause for making things worse at a quicker pace? A) Weaponry. B) Clothing. C) Food. D) Houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food. 56. What is the National Anthem of France? A) Marseillaise. B) You are the one. C) The Star-Spangled Banner. D) Jana wins mana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marseillaise. 57. Who was the king during the french revolution A) Napoleon Bonaparte. B) Philip XVI. C) Louis XVI. D) Francis XVI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis XVI. 58. Which of these is NOT the reason for empty treasury? A) Maintaining an extravagant court at Versailles. B) France helping 13 American colonies gain freedom from common enemy Britain. C) Rapid increase in demand of food grains. D) Long years of war which had drained France's financial resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rapid increase in demand of food grains. 59. Assertion (A):The church extracted its share of taxes called tithes from the peasants.Reason (R):All members of the first and the second estate had to pay direct tax called the taille 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 true but R is false. D) A is false but R is true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A is true but R is false. 60. What was the reign of terror A) When Marie Antoinette said '' let them eat cake". B) When king Louis XVI ruled France. C) When Robespierre was in charge of France. D) When Napoleon ruled France. 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