CBSE Class 9 Social Science Advanced The French Revolution MCQs Set 02

Answer: (c) 1815

Explanation:
1. The Battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815 and ended Napoleon's rule.
2. So the answer is 1815.

Teacher's Note:
1. Only one option has the digits 1815.
2. Napoleon was then sent to St Helena.

Answer: (a) The Right to Vote for Women

Explanation:
1. Suffrage means the right to vote.
2. The suffrage movement demanded the vote for women; French women won it only in 1946.
3. So the answer is the right to vote for women.

Teacher's Note:
1. Suffrage = right to vote.
2. The movement lasted from the late nineteenth into the twentieth century.

Answer: (c) France

Explanation:
1. The Jacobin club was founded in Paris during the French Revolution.
2. So it was powerful in France.

Teacher's Note:
1. Jacobins were named after the convent of St Jacob in Paris.
2. They were led by Robespierre.

Answer: (a) religious tax

Explanation:
1. A tithe was a tax of one-tenth of farm produce paid to the Church.
2. It was therefore a religious tax.

Teacher's Note:
1. Tithe = Church tax. Taille = state tax.
2. The word means one-tenth.

Answer: (c) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

Explanation:
1. Louis XVI became king in 1774, so a matches iii.
2. The Estates General was convened in 1789, so b matches iv.
3. France became a republic and the king was beheaded in 1792-93, so c matches i.
4. Napoleon became emperor in 1804, so d matches ii.
5. The set is a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii, option (c).

Teacher's Note:
1. Put the four dates in order: 1774, 1789, 1792-93, 1804.
2. Match the earliest event with the earliest date first.

Answer: (a) a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii

Explanation:
1. Montesquieu wrote 'The Spirit of the Laws': a-iv.
2. Rousseau wrote 'The Social Contract': b-i.
3. Karl Marx wrote 'Das Kapital': c-iii.
4. Adolf Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf': d-ii.
5. The set is option (a).

Teacher's Note:
1. Remember each author with the title of his famous book.
2. Option (b) contains 'v', which does not exist in Table II.

Answer: (d) Maximillien Robespierre

Explanation:
1. The Reign of Terror (1793-94) was a period of severe control and punishment under Robespierre, head of the Jacobin government.
2. So the answer is Maximilien Robespierre.

Teacher's Note:
1. Robespierre was himself guillotined in July 1794.
2. Locke lived long before the Revolution.

Answer: (c) Montesquieu

Explanation:
1. 'The Spirit of the Laws' was written by Montesquieu, who advocated the separation of powers.
2. So the answer is Montesquieu.

Teacher's Note:
1. Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'.
2. Voltaire attacked the Church and the privileges of the rich.

Answer: (a) Fortress of France

Explanation:
1. The Bastille was a dreaded fortress-prison in Paris.
2. It stood for the despotic power of the king and was stormed on 14 July 1789.
3. So the answer is fortress of France.

Teacher's Note:
1. The word means a fortress used as a prison.
2. Its fall is the symbolic start of the Revolution.

Answer: (b) Breast plate with eagle - Willingness to make peace

Explanation:
1. The broken chain stands for the act of becoming free, the sceptre for royal power and the winged woman for the law (all correct).
2. The breastplate with an eagle stands for the power of the state, not for a willingness to make peace.
3. So the wrongly matched pair is (B).

Teacher's Note:
1. In 'not correctly matched' questions, find the one false pair.
2. Learn the symbol list of the Declaration painting.

Answer: (b) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

Explanation:
1. Waterloo was fought in 1815: a-iv.
2. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Army was formed in 1928: b-iii.
3. The Comintern (Communist International) was formed in 1919: c-ii.
4. The Lahore Congress was held in 1929: d-i.
5. The code a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i is option (b).

Teacher's Note:
1. Check the codes one pair at a time; Waterloo-1815 is the surest pair.
2. The Lahore session of 1929 adopted the goal of Purna Swaraj.

Answer: (a) Livre: Unit of currency in France, discontinued in 1794

Explanation:
1. The livre was the unit of currency in France until 1794.
2. A clergy is a group of persons with special functions in the church (a building for a religious community is a convent); the tithe was a tax paid to the Church, and the taille was a tax paid to the state.
3. So the only correct explanation is (A).

Teacher's Note:
1. Options (B), (C) and (D) swap the meanings; check each against the glossary.
2. Livre - currency, Tithe - church tax, Taille - state tax, Clergy - church officials.

Answer: (a) Olympe de Gouges

Explanation:
1. Olympe de Gouges wrote the 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen' in 1791.
2. So the answer is Olympe de Gouges.

Teacher's Note:
1. She demanded equal rights for women, including the vote.
2. The other three names are men.

Answer: (c) Tithe

Explanation:
1. The Church collected a tax of one-tenth of the agricultural produce, called the tithe.
2. So the answer is Tithe.

Teacher's Note:
1. The printed key gives (B) Taille, which is a direct state tax; I changed it to (C) because the question is about the Church tax.
2. 'Tithe' literally means one-tenth.

Answer: (b) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

Explanation:
1. The Estates General met on 5 May 1789: a-iv.
2. The Bastille was destroyed on 14 July 1789: b-iii.
3. The feudal system was abolished on 4 August 1789: c-ii.
4. The Tennis Court Oath was sworn on 20 June 1789: d-i.
5. The code is a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i, option (b).

Teacher's Note:
1. Place the four dates on a timeline: 5 May, 20 June, 14 July, 4 August 1789.
2. Match them with the events in the same order.