NCERT Extra Questions History Chapter 1 The French Revolution Short and Broad Type (Long). Here we have provided Class IX History Chapter 1 Very Short Type Questions i.e. 01 Mark; Short Type Questions (02 Mark) and Answers. And Long Type Questions.
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MCQ Extra Question & Answer
(Marks-1)
(1) The French Revolution was occured in –
(a) 14th July of 1798
(b) 14th July of 1789
(c) 14th June of 1798
(d) 14th June of 1789
Answer : 14th July of 1789
2.) Bastille Fort was the symbol of –
(a) Democracy
(b) Autocracy
(c) Socialism
(d) The king who thinks about tenants.
Answer: Autocracy
(3) Number of prisoners in the Bastille Fort were –
(a) 7
(b) 17
(c) 700
(d) 7000
Answer: 7 prisoners.
Very Short Type Extra Questions and Answers:
(Marks-1)
1) In which date the king had commanded troops to move into the city of Paris? 14th July 1789
(2) What is Livre ? A unit of currency in France which was discontinued in 1794.
3) Which fortress prison was stoned by the revolutionaries? Bastille
4) Why the Bastille was hated by all? Because it stood for the despotic power of the king
4) most of the people of the country side were protesting against the high price of_______. Bread
(5.) When did Louis XVI ascend the throne?
Ans.: In 1774.
6) How much the lenders who gave the State credit begin to charge on loans? 10% interest
7) What is Tithe? A type of tax paid by the farmers to the Church.
8) What was the society of estates? The society of estates was part of the feudal system that dated back to the middle age
9) How much percentage of the total population world presants? 90%
10) How much percent of land was owned by the nobles? 60%
11) Who were denied to enter into the Assembly during the outbreak of the revolution? Peasants, aartisans and women
12.) What was Bastille Fort a symbol of ? Autocratic Rule
13.) What is Taille ? Direct tax paid to the state.
14) How many letters of grievances where send to the Assembly? 40000
15) When did the national assembly complete the draft of the constitution? 1791
16) Name a revolutionary journalist during the French revolution. Jean Paul Marat.
17) What was Jean Paul Marat’s newspaper? The friend of the people
18) How did the illiterate people of the time used to to communicate? Through government signs
19) What did the broken chain signify?
20) What did the bundle of rods signify?
21) What did the eye within a triangle radiating light signify?
22) What did sceptre signify?
23) What did the snake biting its tail to form a ring signify?
24) What did the rate phrygian cap signify?
25) What did the blue white red signify?
26) What is the national colour of France? Blue white red
27) What did the winged women signify?
28) What did the law tablet signify?
29) What the newly elected Assembly was called? Convention
30) On which date France became a republic? 21st September 1792
31) What is treason? Betrayal of one’s country or government
32) Which period is referred as the reign of terror? 1793 to 1794
33) When did the women in France won the right to vote? 1946
34) What was the most revolutionary social reform of the Jacobian regime? Abolition of slavery in the French colonies
35) In which year all the slaves in French overseas possessions got freedom? 1794
36) In which year slavery was finally abolished in France? 1848
37) Who are termed as negroes? The indigenous people of Africa South of Sahara.
38) How did Napoleon see his role in Europe? Napoleon saw his role as a moderniser in Europe
39) In which year Napoleon was finally defeated and in which war? Napoleon was finally defeated in the year 1815 at the war of Waterloo.
Short Type Extra Questions:
Marks – 02/03
1) Why the treasury was empty when Louis XVI came into power?Upon his accession the new king found an empty treasury. Long years of war had drained the financial resources of France.added to this was the cost of maintaining and extravagant court at the immense place of Versailles.
2) Why the government increased the taxes? Lenders who gave the State credit now begin to charge 10% interest on loans.show the French government was obliged to spend and increasing percentage of its budget on interest payments alone. To meet its regular expenses such as the cost of maintaining an army the court running government offices or universities the state was forced to increase taxes.
3) Who are the members of the first two estates? The members were the clergy and the nobility
4) What were the the duty of the pesants? To render service to the Lord to work in his house and Fields to serve in the army or to participate in building roads
5) What were Tithes and taille?
6) Who is a clergy? The clergy is a group of persons invested with special functions in the church
7) What is subsistence crisis? An extreme situation where the basic means of livelihood are endangered
8) How did the ideas of the middle class philosophers spread? Ideas of the philosophers were discussed intensively in salons and coffee houses. And spread among the people through books and newspapers.
9) How tax law was made in the old regime of France? The monarch did not have the power to impose taxes according to his will all alone . Rather he had to call a meeting of the estates general which would then pass his proposal for new taxes.
10) Who were the estates general? The estates general was a political body to which the three states sent their representatives. How were the monarch alone could decide when to call a meeting of his body. The last time it was done was in 1614.
11) When did the national assembly form? who were the leaders of the national assembly m the national assembly was formed in the year 20th June,2789. The names of the leaders were Mirabeau and abbe sieyes.
12) Who were the manor? Who were the chateaux?
13) When did the feudal system came to an end and what were its immediate effect? the feudal system of France came to an end on the night of 4th August 1789. The Assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations and taxes. Members of the clergy too were forced to give up their privileges . Many taxes were abolished and the lands owned by the church were confiscated. As a result the government acquired asset worth at least two billion livres.
14) how many different institutions were there under the constitutional monarchy in France ? There were three different institutions which are legislature executive and judiciary
15) Who had the right to vote? Who didn’t had the right to vote?
16) What rights were given to the citizens of France by the newborn constitution? The constitution began with the declaration of rights of man and citizen. Rights such as right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, equality before law where is tab list as natural and inalienable. That is they belonged to each human being by birth and could not be taken away. It was the duty of the state to protect its citizens natural rights.
17) Name some of the patriotic songs of the French revolution?
18) What is the story behind the name of jacobins? Jacobins got their name from the former convent of saint Jacob in Paris.
19) Why did the jacobins planned and insurrection in 1792?
20) Who were given the right to vote after 1792? all men of 21 years and above regardless of wealth got the right to vote from now on
21) When Louis XVI was sentenced to death? In what charge? What happened to his wife?
22) What were the occupations of the women who are the part of the revolution? The woman who had the part of the revolution where mostly laundresses, sold flowers food fruits vegetables at the market or were employed as domestic servants in the houses of prosperous people
23) What were the demand of the women during the French revolution? The women demanded the right to vote to be elected to the assembly and to hold political office.
24) How did the struggle for equal political rights how were continued during the reign of terror? It continued during the reign of terror as the new government issued laws ordering closure of women’s clubs and banning their political activities. Many prominent women were arrested and a number of them executed
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Chapter 1 The French Revolution Worksheet (Long Type Questions):
1) Write about the struggle to survive during the 1780s
2) Write about the growing middle class during the 18th century?
3) Name two elite middle class writers who had a great impact on the French revolution and describe their contribution.
4) What accounts did the people who lived in the old regime convey? Give examples
5) Describe about the voting system of the estates general
6) Why, while the national assembly was busy at Versaillesdrafting a constitution the rest of France was in a turmoil?
7) How did French became a constitutional monarchy describe
8) What was the situation when King Louis XVI entered into a secret negotiations with The King of prussia?
9) Elaborately describe about the aims and ambitions of the jacobin club?
10) What is reign of terror? What is guillotine? Who invented guillotine?
11) What were the immediate effects of The Fall of the jacobin government?
12) Write about a revolutionary woman who participated in the French revolution?
13) Give detailed description of the slave trade during the French revolution and how it came to an end?
14) What liberties were given to the common man after the revolution? What was freedom of press and evolution of of the censorship?
15) Write about the effects of French revolution.
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