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Key Features:
- 15 multiple-choice questions
- Covers various aspects: history, politics, and social change
- Ideal for students, history buffs, and curious minds
The National Assembly framed a Constitution in 1791 to limit the powers of the
(a) monarch
(b) wealthy man
(c) businessmen
(d) press
Who wrote an influential pamphlet What is the third Estate’?
Mirabeau
Abbe Sieyes
Jean-Paul Marat
Olympe de Gouges
Which group of people did not join the Jacobin club?
Artisans
Shopkeepers
Daily-wage workers
Men with property
French women demanded the right:
To vote
To be elected to the assembly
To hold political office
All of the above
A triangular slave trade took place between Europe, the Americas and:
Africa
Asia
Australia
None of the above
Upon becoming free, the slave wore:
Blue cap
Red cap
Green cap
White cap
Who were not considered ‘passive citizens’?
Women
Children
Non propertied men
Wealthy people
The Third Estate comprised
Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers
Peasants and artisan
Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc
All the above Answer
Which of the following decisions was taken by the convention
Declared France a constitutional monarchy
Abolished the monarchy
All men and women above 21 years got the right to vote
Declared France a Republic
How does a ‘Subsistence Crisis’ happen?
Bad harvest leads to scarcity of grains
Food prices rise and the poorest cannot buy bread
Leads to weaker bodies, diseases, deaths and even food riots
All the above
Which of the following statements is untrue about the Third Estate
The Third Estate was made of the poor only
Within the Third Estate some were rich and some were poor
Richer members of the Third Estate owned lands
Peasants were obliged to serve in the army, or build roads
A guillotine was ____________________
A device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person was beheaded
A fine sword with which heads were cut off
A special noose to hang people
None of the above
The word livres stands for:
Unit of currency in France
Tax levied by the Church
Tax to be paid directly to the state
None of these
What was ‘Estates General’?
Post of Army General
A political body
Head of all landed property
Advisor of the king
Which of these books was written by John Locke?
The Spirit of the Laws
Two Treatises on Government
The Social Contract
All the above
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