THE INDIAN HEIGHTS SCHOOL

CLASS –IX
SUBJECT- Social Science (History)
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Revision Worksheet 2 (PT 2)
NAME- DATE September 2,2021

Choose the correct option

1. The duty to protect citizen’s natural rights was vested to whom?

a) Kings
b) Lawyers
c) State
d) Court officials

2. When did Napoleon fight the Battle of Waterloo?

a) 1815
b) 1832
c) 1810
d) 1804

3. Who proposed a form of government based on a social contract between people and their
representatives?
a) Abbe Sieyes
b) John Locke
c) Montesquieu
d) Jean Jacques Rousseau
4. Arrange the following events in chronological order:
i. A constitution is framed to limit the powers of the king.
ii. Louis XVI becomes king of France.
iii. Convocation of Estates General.
iv. France becomes a republic.
a) iii, i, ii, iv
b) ii, iii, i, iv
c) iv, iii, ii, i
d) ii, i, iv, iii

5. The eye within a triangle radiating light stands for?

a) Responsibility
b) Knowledge
c) Authority
d) Freedom

6. Arrange the following events in chronological order:

i. Louis XVI faces an empty treasury and growing discontent within society.
ii. Napoleon defeated at Waterloo.
iii. The Third Estate forms the National Assembly.
iv. Napoleon becomes emperor of France.
 a) ii, iv, i, iii
b) iv, iii, ii, i
c) i, iii, iv, ii
d) iii, i, ii, iv

7. Which of the following work were peasants obliged to perform?

a) To serve in the army
b) To participate in building roads
c) All of these
d) To work in lord’s house and field

8. The execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was done at which place?
a) The Palace of Versailles
b) Palais Bourbon
c) Place de la Concorde
d) Palace of Tuileries

9. What was the immediate outcome of the storming of Bastille?

a) Fortress demolished and its stone fragments were sold in the markets as a
souvenir.
b) French society was divided into I, II and III estate.
c) New constitution of France was framed.
d) A meeting of the Estates General was called.

10. Who suggested the division of power within the government between the legislative,
the executive and the judiciary?
a) Montesquieu
b) Rousseau
c) John Locke
d) Roget de L’Isle

11. Taille was to be paid directly to?

a) Church
b) State
c) Landlords
d) Kings

For question numbers 12-16, two statements are given- one labeled Assertion (A) and the
other labeled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes (a),
(b), (c) and (d) as given below:

Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
A is true but R is false.
A is false but R is true.

12. Assertion (A): Clergy and Nobility enjoyed certain privileges and exemptions.
Reason (R): Peasants were obliged to render services to the lords.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

13. Assertion (A): The French government increased the taxes.

Reason (R): To meet the regular expenses such as the cost of maintaining an army, the
court, and running the government offices or universities, the state was forced to reduce
taxes.

A is true but R is false.

14. Assertion (A): Mirabeau and Abbé Sieyès became the face of the third estate.
Reason (R): They belonged to the third estate so they could represent them properly.

A is true but R is false.

15. Assertion (A): A chain of events followed in France and people in the city and
countryside were rioting.
Reason (R): Most of them were protesting against the high price of bread.

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

16.Assertion (A): The National Assembly was indirectly elected by the highest taxpayers.
Reason (R): It was elected by a group of electors who were chosen by the passive citizens.

A is true but R is false.

Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow:
In the past, peasants and workers had participated in revolts against increasing taxes and
food scarcity. But they lacked the means and programmes to carry out full-scale measures
that would bring about a change in the social and economic order. This was left to those
groups within the third estate who had become prosperous and had access to education
and new ideas. The eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of social groups, termed
the middle class, who earned their wealth through expanding overseas trade and from the
manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles that were either exported or bought
by the richer members of society. In addition to merchants and manufacturers, the third
estate included professions such as lawyers or administrative officials. All of these were
educated and believed that no group in society should be privileged by birth. Rather, a
person’s social position must depend on his merit. These ideas envisaging a society based
on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all were put forward by philosophers such
as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke
sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch. Rousseau
carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on a social contract
between people and their representatives. In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu
proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive
and the judiciary. This model of government was put into force in the USA after the thirteen
colonies declared their independence from Britain. The American constitution and its
guarantee of individual rights was an important example for political thinkers in France.

Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:

1. Which social group emerged in France in the 18th century?

a) Nobility
b) Clergy
c) Middle class
d) Philosophers
2. Refuting the doctrine of divine and absolute right of the monarch was the main idea of
___ which was made public in his ___.
a) Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Spirit of the Laws
b) John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
c) Montesquieu, The Social Contract
d) None of these

3. Assertion (A): Peasants and workers not successful in bringing about a change in the
French social and economic order.
Reason (R): They lacked the means and programmes to carry out full-scale measures.

Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A.
A is correct but R is wrong.
Both A and R are wrong.

4. Match the following:

COLUMN A COLUMN B
A. Two Treatises of Government 1. Legislative, the executive and the
judiciary
B. Social contract 2. Form of government between people
and their representatives
C. The Spirit of the Laws 3. Doctrine of the divine and absolute right
of Monarch

a) A-1, B-1, C-2

b) A-2, B-1, C-3
c) A-3, B-2, C-1
d) A-1, B-3, C-2