Test: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

 Test: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

1. The Third Estate comprised

(A) Poor servants, small peasants and landless labour

(B) Peasants and artisans

(C) Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc.

(D) All the above

2. How does a subsistence crisis happen ?

(A) Bad harvest leads to scarcity of grains

(B) Rising food prices and the poorest cannot buy bread

(C) Leads to weaker bodies, diseases, deaths and even food riots

(D) All the above

3. Which of the following believed social position must depend on merit ?

(A) Middle class (B) Nobility (C) Workers (D) Peasants

4. The word livres stands for

(A) unit of currency in France (B) tax levied by the church

(C) tax to be paid directly to the state (D) none of these

5. What was the effect of the rise of population of France from about 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789 ?

(A) Education became difficult (B) Rapid increase in the demand for foodgrains

(C) Housing problem occurred (D) None of the above

6. What was the name of tax which was directly paid to the state by the Third Estate ?

(A) Tithe (B) Livre (C) Taille (D) All of these

7. The term ‘Old Regime’ is usually used to describe

(A) France before 1000 BC

(B) Society of France after 1789 AD

(C) Society and institutions of France before 1789 AD

(D) None of the above

8. In the context of France, ‘the fall of Bastille’ took place on

(A) 14th July 1789 (B) 20th June 1789 (C) 4th Aug 1789 (D) 5th May 1789

9. Tax from peasants to Church was called

(A) Taille (B) Tithe (C) Lagan (D) Jazia

10. Which of the following refuted the doctrine of divine and absolute right ?

(A) John Locke (B) Rousseau (C) Montesquieu