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question_answer1) When did the French Revolution begin?
question_answer2) Louis XVI belonged to which dynasty?
question_answer3) Who belonged to the third estate?
question_answer4) What is the name of the national anthem of France?
question_answer5) The new Constitution of France drafted in 1791 immediately after the revolution made France what kind of state?
question_answer6) Who was the leader of the Jacobin club?
question_answer7) Who was the author of the pamphlet called 'What is the Third Estate'?
question_answer8) Who was the editor of the paper called "I'ami du people" (The friend of the people)?
question_answer9) What was the charge on which king Louis XVI was sentenced to death?
question_answer10) What was the name of the assembly which was called in France in 1792?
question_answer11) Who abolished monarchy in France and declared it a republic and when?
question_answer12) A triangular slave trade was held between which areas of the world during the 18th century?
question_answer13) When did Napoleon Bonaparte crown himself Emperor of France?
question_answer14) When and where was Napoleon Bonaparte finally defeated?
question_answer15) Which estate of the French society paid all taxes?
question_answer16) Name the French port cities related with the slave trade.
question_answer17) Which Indian individuals responded to the ideas coming from revolutionary France?
question_answer18) A large number of Jacobins came to be known as 'Sans-culottes'. What did this term mean?
question_answer19) Who did seize power after the fall of the Jacobin government?
question_answer20) Who did lead the representatives of the third estate in Versailles on 20th June, 1789?
question_answer21) Which social groups emerged in the 18th century?
question_answer22) What was the name of the direct tax collected by the state from the peasants in 18th century France?
question_answer23) Name the French colonies in the Caribbean.
question_answer24) When was slavery finally abolished in the French colonies?
question_answer25) Who wrote a 'Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens'?
question_answer26) When did the women in France get the right to vote?
question_answer27) Name the symbol of eternity in the French society.
question_answer28) Which section of French society was forced to give up their power after the French Revolution?
question_answer29) Based on the French Constitution of 1791, who were known as 'active citizens'?
question_answer30) Describe any three causes for the fall of the Jacobin government in France.
question_answer31) Describe the divisions in French society before the French Revolution.
question_answer32) What was the contribution of Mirabeau to the formation of the National Assembly?
question_answer33) How did. peasants protest against the feudal lords or nobles of France?
question_answer34) How did France become a Constitutional monarchy?
question_answer35) Differentiate between active and passive citizens of France.
question_answer36) What was the condition of women in France before the revolution? Or Evaluate the role of women in France before the revolution.
question_answer37) Which laws were made to improve the status of women in the French society? Or Discuss any four steps taken by the revolutionary government of France for improving the lives of women. Or State any five laws introduced by the revolutionary government in France that helped to improve the lives of women.
question_answer38) What was the guillotine? How was it used?
question_answer39) Compare the manifesto drafted by Olympe de Gouges with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
question_answer40) Explain any five features of the Constitution of 1791, framed by the National Assembly in France. Or Write three main features of the French constitution of 1791.
question_answer41) "The 18th century France witnessed the emergence of the middle class'. Who were they and what were their ideas?
question_answer42) Which was the important law that came into effect soon after the storming of the Bastille in the summer of 1789? How did it change the lives of the common people? Explain.
question_answer43) Explain the triangular slave trade carried on during 18th and 19th century.
question_answer44) What were the reforms introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte in France? Or Explain the achievements of Napoleon Bonaparte of France. Or Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? What reforms did he introduce in France?
question_answer45) What do you understand by the term 'Reign of Terror'?
question_answer46) (i) Which groups of French society benefitted from the revolution? (ii) Which groups were forced to relinquish power? (iii) Which sections of society would have been disappointed with the outcome of the revolution?
question_answer47) Draw up a list of democratic rights we enjoy today whose origins could be traced to the French Revolution.
question_answer48) How would you explain the rise of Napoleon? Or Describe the rise of Napolean Bonaparte.
question_answer49) What is the role of philosophers in the French Revolution ?
question_answer50) How was slavery abolished in France? Or Explain the process of slavery abolition in France.
question_answer51) Name one of the most important of the politically active women in revolutionary France. What do you know about her?
question_answer52) Write a short note on Napoleon Bonaparte.
question_answer53) The French Revolution popularised many symbols. Each symbol depicted some basic values. Mention such symbols and related values.
question_answer54) Mention any five values which are associated with Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen.
question_answer55) In 'The Spirit of the Laws', Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the government between the Legislative, the Executive and the Judiciary. Explain the values which can be reflected in this proposal.
question_answer56) What was the impact of French Revolution on the world? Give your points. Or What was the impact of French Revolution on the world? Name two Indians who were very much influenced by the revolutionary France. Or Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the people of the world.
question_answer57) What were the causes for the empty treasure of France under Louis XVI? Assess any three causes. Or State any five causes for the empty treasury of France under Louis XVI. (v) Lenders who had given the state credit, now began to change 10 per cent interest on the existing loans. So, the French government had to spend an increasing percentage of its budget on interest payment.
question_answer58) Why did the subsistence crisis frequently occur in France during the Old Regime? Or List any five reasons that led to subsistence crisis in France during the Old Regime.
question_answer59) What were the results of the French Revolution for France? Or What landmark decisions were taken by the National Assembly led by the third estate on the 4th August, 1789?
question_answer60) Why was the Bastille hated by all?
question_answer61) What did the fall of the Bastille signify?
question_answer62) Name the classes which formed the privileged estates.
question_answer63) When was monarchy abolished and France declared a republic?
question_answer64) Name the authors of these following books. (i) The Social Contract (ii) The Spirit of Laws
question_answer65) Which rights were the 'natural and inalienable' rights according to the French Constitution?
question_answer66) Explain the terms Liberty, Equality and Fraternity of French Revolution.
question_answer67) Describe the circumstances leading to the outbreak of revolutionary protest in France.
question_answer68) Describe the legacy of the French Revolution for the people of the world during the 19th and 20th centuries.
question_answer69) What is the significance of The Tennis Court Oath' in the French Revolution?
question_answer70) Explain why the artist has portrayed the nobleman as the spider and the peasant as the fly.
question_answer71) What message is Young trying to convey here? Whom does he mean when he speaks of 'slaves'? Who is he criticising? What dangers does he sense in the situation of 1787?
question_answer72) Representatives of the Third Estate take the oath raising their arms in the direction of Bailly, the President of the Assembly, standing on a table in the centre. Do you think that during the actual event Bailly would have stood with his back to the assembled deputies? What could have been David's intention in placing Bailly the way he has done?
question_answer73) Explain the meaning of the painting of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen by reading only the symbols. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, painted by the artist Le Barbier in 1790. The figure on the right represents France. The figure on the left symbolises the law.
question_answer74) Which groups of French society would have gained from the Constitution of 1791? Which groups would have had reason to be dissatisfied? What developments does Marat (Source B) anticipate in the future? Source B The revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat commented in his newspaper L'Ami du peuple (The friend of the people) on the Constitution drafted by the National Assembly. The task of representing the people has been given to the rich the lot of the poor and oppressed will never be improved by peaceful means alone. Here we have absolute proof of how wealth influences the law. Yet laws will last only as long as the people agree to obey them. And when they have managed to cast off the yoke of the aristocrats, they will do the same to the other owners of wealth'. Source An extract from the newspaper L'Ami du People.
question_answer75) Imagine the impact of the events in France on neighbouring countries such as Prussia, Austria-Hungary or Spain, all of which were absolute monarchies. How would the kings, traders, peasants, nobles or members of the clergy here have reacted to the news of what was happening in France?
question_answer76) Look carefully at the painting and identify the objects which are political symbols you saw in your text book Box 1 (broken chain, red cap, fasces, Charter of the Declaration of Rights). The pyramid stands for equality, often represented by a triangle. Use the symbols to interpret the painting. Describe your impressions of the female figure of liberty. This is one of the rare paintings by a woman artist. The revolutionary events made it possible for women to train with established painters and to exhibit their works in the Salon, which was an exhibition held every two years. The painting is a female allegory of liberty?that is, the female form symbolises the idea of freedom.
question_answer77) Describe the persons represented in their actions, their postures, the objects they are carrying. Look carefully to see whether all of them come from the same social group. What symbols has the artist included in the image? What do they stand for? Do the actions of the women reflect traditional ideas of how women were expected to behave in public? What do you think: does the artist sympathise with the women's activities or is he critical of them? Discuss your views in the Class. This print is one of the many pictorial representations of the events of 5th October, 1789, when women marched to Versailles and brought the king back with them to Paris.
question_answer78) Imagine yourself to be one of the women in Formulate a response to the arguments put forward by Chaumette (Source G). Source G In 1793, the jacobin politician Chaumette sought to justify the closure of women's clubs on the following grounds: Has Nature entrusted domestic duties to men? Has she given us breasts to nurture babies? No. She said to Man: Be a man. Hunting, agriculture, political duties... that is your kingdom. She said to Woman: Be a woman... the things of the household, the sweet duties of motherhood ... those are your tasks. Shameless are those women, who wish to become men. Have not duties been fairly distributed?
question_answer79) Record your impressions of this print Describes the objects lying on the ground. What do the symbolise? What attitude does the picture express towards non-European slaves? The Emancipation of Slaves this print of 1794 describes the emancipation of slaves. The tricolour banner on top carries the slogan: The rights of man'. The inscription below reads: The freedom of the un free'. A French woman prepares to 'civilise', the African and American Indian slaves by giving them European clothes to wear.
question_answer80) Describe the picture in your own words. What are the images that the artist has used to communicate the following ideas: greed, equality, justice, takeover by the state of the assets of the Church?
question_answer81) Identify the symbols which stand for liberty, equality and fraternity.
question_answer82) How were the some basic rights set forth in Olympe de Gouges different from the declaration of rights of man and citizen?
question_answer83) Name the European countries which share common boundaries with France.
question_answer84) Locate the following regions on the map of France (i)Regions not affected by the Great Fear (ii)Areas of agrarian revolt early 1789 (iii) Epicentres of main panic movements (iv) The spread of the Great Fear
question_answer85) When was the Bastille Prison stormed?
question_answer86) What was the most important legacy of the French Revolution?
question_answer87) In which famous war was Napolean Bonaparte defeated?
question_answer88) When did Nepoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France?
question_answer89) When was slavery finally abolished in france?
question_answer90) Name the French ports through which slave trade was done.
question_answer91) Between which three continents triangular slave trade was held?
question_answer92) When did women in France finally get the right to vote in France.
question_answer93) Name the important political clubs formed by women in France to fight for their political rights.
question_answer94) What was 'Directory'?
question_answer95) How Robespierre's end came?
question_answer96) What was Guillotine?
question_answer97) Who introduced 'Reign of terror' in France?
question_answer98) Which new Assembly was formed by Jacobins?
question_answer99) Who were 'Sans-Culottes'?
question_answer100) Who was the leader of Jacobin clubs?
question_answer101) What were political clubs?
question_answer102) What was 'Marseillaise'?
question_answer103) Who could qualify as an Elector?
question_answer104) Who were electors?
question_answer105) Who all got the right to vote for National Assembly?
question_answer106) When was the draft of the National Assembly's constitution completed and what was its main objective?
question_answer107) When was National Assembly recognized?
question_answer108) What was a 'Manor'?
question_answer109) What does 'Chateau' mean?
question_answer110) What was the immediate cause of French Revolution?
question_answer111) What do you know about Abbe Sieves.
question_answer112) Who was Mirabeau?
question_answer113) Which proposal of the third estate was rejected by Estates General?
question_answer114) How was the meeting of Estates General called by Louis XVI attended by three Estates?
question_answer115) What was the Estates General?
question_answer116) How was division of power suggested by philosopher Montesquieu?
question_answer117) Who was Rousseau?
question_answer118) When was the Bastille Prison stormed?
question_answer119) What were the views of John Locke in inspiring the people for French Revolution?
question_answer120) Which social groups emerged as 'middle class' in 18th century France?
question_answer121) Why was Bastille Prison attacked?
question_answer122) What does 'subsistence crisis' mean?
question_answer123) What was taille?
question_answer124) Which ruler came to power in France in 1774?
question_answer125) What was tithe?
question_answer126) Whom did Louis XVI get married to?
question_answer127) Who formed the First and Second Estates of French Society?
question_answer128) Why did the French government increase the taxes?
question_answer129) How did American war of Independence add more debt to France?
question_answer130) Why was treasury empty when Louis XVI ascended the throne?
question_answer131) When was the Bastille Prison stormed?
question_answer132)
question_answer133) What was the most important legacy of the French Revolution?
question_answer134) In which famous war was Napolean Bonaparte defeated?
question_answer135) When did Nepoleon Bonaparte became Emperor of France?
question_answer136) When was slavery finally abolished in france?
question_answer137) Name the French ports through which slave trade was done.
question_answer138) Between which three continents triangular slave trade was held?
question_answer139) When did women in France finally get the right to vote in France.
question_answer140) Name the important political clubs formed by women in France to fight for their political rights.
question_answer141) What was 'Directory'?
question_answer142) How Robespierre's end came?
question_answer143) What was Guillotine?
question_answer144) Who introduced 'Reign of terror' in France?
question_answer145) Which new Assembly was formed by Jacobins?
question_answer146) Who were 'Sans-Culottes'?
question_answer147) Who was the leader of Jacobin clubs?
question_answer148) What were political clubs?
question_answer149) What was 'Marseillaise'?
question_answer150) Who could qualify as an Elector?
question_answer151) Who were electors?
question_answer152) Who all got the right to vote for National Assembly?
question_answer153) When was the draft of the National Assembly's constitution completed and what was its main objective?
question_answer154) When was National Assembly recognized?
question_answer155) What was a 'Manor'?
question_answer156) What does 'Chateau' mean?
question_answer157) What was the immediate cause of French Revolution?
question_answer158) What do you know about Abbe Sieves.
question_answer159) Who was Mirabeau?
question_answer160) Which proposal of the third estate was rejected by Estates General?
question_answer161) How was the meeting of Estates General called by Louis XVI attended by three Estates?
question_answer162) What was the Estates General?
question_answer163) How was division of power suggested by philosopher Montesquieu?
question_answer164) Who was Rousseau?
question_answer165) What were the views of John Locke in inspiring the people for French Revolution?
question_answer166) Which social groups emerged as 'middle class' in 18th century France?
question_answer167) What does 'subsistence crisis' mean?
question_answer168) What was taille?
question_answer169) What was tithe?
question_answer170) Who formed the First and Second Estates of French Society?
question_answer171) Why did the French government increase the taxes?
question_answer172) How did American war of Independence add more debt to France?
question_answer173) Why was treasury empty when Louis XVI ascended the throne?
question_answer174) Whom did Louis XVI get married to?
question_answer175) Which rule came to power in France in 1774?
question_answer176) Why was Bastille Prison attacked?
question_answer177) Describe the French division of society.
question_answer178) What is the role of philosophers in the French Revolution?
question_answer179) What do you know about the 'Estates General'?
question_answer180) Elucidate the contribution of Mirabeau in the formation of the National Assembly?
question_answer181) How did peasants protest against the feudal lords or nobles of France?
question_answer182) How was the National Assembly recognised and how did it start exercising its powers?
question_answer183) Differentiate between Active and Passive Citizens.
question_answer184) What rights were provided by the French Constitution?
question_answer185) What do you know about the political clubs formed in France?
question_answer186) What was a 'Directory'? Why was it removed from France?
question_answer187) How did women suffer in France?
question_answer188) Which laws were made to improve the status of women in the French society?
question_answer189) What was the immediate cause of the French Revolution?
question_answer190) How did the French people ultimately get the right to vote to all citizens?
question_answer191) When had France become a Republic?
question_answer192) What was Guillotine? How was it used?
question_answer193) What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
question_answer194) Which incident had led to the outbreak of the revolution in France?
question_answer195) Who formed the Jacobin Club? What measures had he taken to remove discrimination in the French society and form a French Republic?
question_answer196) How was slave trade started? When and how was it abolished? OR Prepare a short note on 'Slave Trade'.
question_answer197) Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? Why was he called a liberator?
question_answer198) How did the fall of Bastille prison become the immediate cause of French Revolution?
question_answer199) How can you say that Louis XVI was a despotic ruler?
question_answer200) What does subsistence crisis mean? What led to subsistence crisis in France?
question_answer201) What is the role of middle classes in ending the privileges?
question_answer202) Who represented the National Assembly on 5th May 1789?
question_answer203) How was National Assembly recognised?
question_answer204) What was Marseillaise? What led to the formation of Marseillaise?
question_answer205) Describe the main features of the constitution of 1791 drafted by the National Assembly.
question_answer206) 'Two Treatises of Government' was written by: (a) Rousseau (b) John Locke (c) Montesquieu (d) None of these
question_answer207) Passive citizens of France were: (a) Only men above 25 years (b) Only propertied men (c) Men and women who didn't vote (d) Only propertied women
question_answer208) 'Marseilles' was a: (a) Representative of third estate (b) National anthem of France (c) Political club (d) Militia
question_answer209) 'Directory' means: (a) Addresses of the Legislative Council (b) Formed by the military dictator (c) An executive made up of five members (d) List of names
question_answer210) Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in: (a) Battle of Paris (b) Battle of Ecuador (c) Battle of Waterloo (d) Battle of Plassey
question_answer211) What led to subsistence crisis in France?
question_answer212) Why do you think that a growing middle class in France envisages an end to the privileges?
question_answer213) What do you know about triangular slave trade? What legislative measures were taken to end slavery in French colonies?
question_answer214) What kinds of freedoms were granted to the citizens of France after French Revolution?
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