Class 8 Social Science Practice Set: The French Revolution
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1. Privileges of the first two estates. 2. Philosophers who influenced the French.
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Answer: The clergy and the nobles paid no taxes, held the top posts and collected taxes and dues from the peasants. The thinkers were Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu.
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2. Estates, bourgeoisie, Estates-General, the Bastille, guillotine.
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Answer: Estates: the three classes of French society: clergy, nobles and commoners. Bourgeoisie: the educated middle class. Estates-General: the French assembly of the three estates. The Bastille: a fort-prison in Paris, a symbol of the king's power. Guillotine: a machine used to execute people by beheading.
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A. Choose and True or False
1. The monarchs lived at. 2. French society was. 3. Who rejected the Divine Right? 4. Who wrote The Social Contract? 5. Leader of the Jacobins.
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Answer: 1. (b) Versailles; 2. (c) feudal; 3. (a) Voltaire; 4. (b) Rousseau; 5. (a) Robespierre.
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4. True or False: 1. The royal treasury was full. 2. Artisans and peasants lived well. 3. Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess. 4. The people broke into the Bastille. 5. The monarchy was re-established in 1792.
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Answer: 1. False: it was empty. 2. False: they were very poor. 3. True. 4. True. 5. False: France became a republic in 1792.
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1. The king during the Revolution. 2. The French Assembly. 3. The middle class belonged to the ____ Estate. 4. An extremist leader. 5. The Directory depended on ____. 6. The ideas spread.
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Answer: 1. Louis XVI; 2. National Assembly; 3. Third; 4. Robespierre; 5. the army (Napoleon's army); 6. liberty, equality and fraternity.
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1. The radical group in power in 1793. 2. Who urged separation of powers? 3. Who declared himself Emperor? 4. The Directory. 5. What was adopted on 12 August 1789?
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Answer: 1. The Jacobins. 2. Montesquieu. 3. Napoleon Bonaparte (in 1804). 4. A five-member executive body that ruled France from 1795 to 1799. 5. The National Assembly adopted the abolition of feudal privileges (the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789).
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6. Socio-economic causes of the Revolution.
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Answer: Society was unequal: the first two estates paid no tax while the third estate paid all. The treasury was empty because of wars and the court's luxury. Peasants suffered from heavy taxes and bad harvests, bread prices rose, and the middle class had no political rights.
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7. Philosophers and how they inspired. 8. The Bastille and its destruction. 9. The Reign of Terror.
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Answer: Voltaire attacked the Church and absolute kings, Rousseau spoke of the general will and equality, and Montesquieu proposed the separation of powers. They gave people ideas of liberty and rights. The Bastille was a state prison; on 14 July 1789 the crowd destroyed it, which showed the people's power and began the Revolution. The Reign of Terror (1793-94) was Robespierre's rule in which thousands of suspected enemies were guillotined. It ended with his fall, and brought fear and a call for a calmer government.
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9. E. Picture study: what does it show, on which day, and what was the Bastille?
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Answer: It shows the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. The Bastille was a prison and fort in Paris and a symbol of royal tyranny. The incident is important because it marks the start of the French Revolution; 14 July is France's national day.
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