CBSE Class 9 French Revolution — practice questions
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Practice CBSE Class 9 French Revolution in the app →The Bastille was stormed on which date?How many people gathered to form a peoples' militia?What did the crowd hope to find inside the Bastille?The Bastille was hated because it stood for the king's:Most people rioting after the Bastille fell were protesting the price of:Louis XVI ascended the throne of France in:Louis XVI was married to a princess from:On his accession Louis XVI found the treasury:France helped which colonies gain independence from Britain?Lenders to the French state charged interest at:French society before 1789 was divided into how many estates?The society and institutions of France before 1789 are called the:Peasants made up roughly what share of the French population?What share of the land was owned by nobles, the Church and the rich?The chief privilege of the clergy and nobility was exemption from:The tax the Church extracted from peasants was called:The direct tax paid by the third estate to the state was:Which thinker wrote Two Treatises of Government?Which thinker wrote The Spirit of the Laws?Louis XVI called the Estates General on:How many members represented the third estate at that assembly?Which book by Rousseau inspired the demand for voting by head?The third estate representatives were led by Abbe Sieyes and:The National Assembly completed the draft constitution in:The 1791 constitution made France a:Under the 1791 constitution, about how many were active citizens?Citizens with no voting rights were called:The Jacobin club took its name from a former:Who led the large group among the Jacobins?The newly elected assembly of 1792 was called the:Louis XVI was publicly executed on:The Reign of Terror covers which period?Robespierre was arrested after being convicted in:After the Jacobins fell, France was governed by a:Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of France in:Napoleon was finally defeated at:The slave trade ran as a triangle between Europe, Africa and:The Convention legislated to free all slaves in:Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in:Women in France finally won the right to vote in:Which woman protested the exclusion of women from basic rights?