Chapter 1 – The French Revolution

Who said: The task of representing the people has been given to the rich?

The National Assembly framed a Constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the

Who wrote an influential pamphlet What is the third Estate’?

Which group of people did not join the Jacobin club?

French women demanded the right:

A triangular slave trade took place between Europe, the Americas and:

Upon becoming free, the slave wore:

Who were not considered ‘passive citizens’?

The Third Estate comprised

Which of the following decisions was taken by the convention

How does a ‘Subsistence Crisis’ happen?

Which of the following statements is untrue about the Third Estate

A guillotine was ____________________

The word livres stands for:

What was the ‘Subsistence Crisis’ which occurred frequently in France?

What was ‘Estates General’?

The term ‘Old Regime’ is usually used to describe

Which of these books was written by John Locke?

In the meeting of the Estates General, the members of the Third Estate demanded that

Who led the representatives of the Third Estate in Versailles on 20th June?

Which of these provisions were passed by the Assembly on the night of 4 August, 1789?

According to the new constitution of 1791, the National Assembly was to be

Which of these rights were not established as ‘natural and inalienable’ rights by the constitution of 1791?

Which of the following state of French society paid all the taxes?

2. The tax that was charged by the church from the peasants :

What did Rousseau preach?

What did Montesquieu propose?

Which one of the following is the author of ‘The Social Contract’?

Which of the following were the two leaders of National Assembly of France?

Name the French Revolutionary who edited the paper ‘L’ Ami due peuple.