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UPSC CDS Modern Indian History — practice questions — page 35

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Louis XVI ascended the French throne in:Read the answer and worked solution →Louis XVI was married to the Austrian princess:Read the answer and worked solution →In eighteenth-century France, which estate alone paid taxes to the state?Read the answer and worked solution →Peasants made up about what share of the French population?Read the answer and worked solution →The Church's tax on peasants, one-tenth of produce, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →The direct tax paid by the third estate to the state was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosopher's Two Treatises of Government refuted the divine right of monarchs?Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1789, the Estates General had last been called in:Read the answer and worked solution →Louis XVI convened the Estates General on:Read the answer and worked solution →The third estate sent how many members to the Estates General of 1789?Read the answer and worked solution →Who wrote the pamphlet What is the Third Estate?Read the answer and worked solution →The National Assembly abolished the feudal system of obligations and taxes on the night of:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Constitution of 1791, active citizens had to be men above what age?Read the answer and worked solution →The Jacobin club took its name from the former convent of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jacobins who wore long striped trousers were known as:Read the answer and worked solution →France abolished the monarchy and became a republic on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Reign of Terror covers the years:Read the answer and worked solution →Robespierre was convicted and guillotined in:Read the answer and worked solution →After the Jacobins fell, executive power passed to a Directory of how many members?Read the answer and worked solution →Women in France finally won the right to vote in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the revolutionariesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Old Regime wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the RevolutionRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Revolution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Estate or symbolRead the answer and worked solution →Sort thinkers, taxes and eventsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →French Revolution bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Around 1750, the world's largest producer of cotton textiles was:Read the answer and worked solution →European traders first met fine Indian cotton carried by Arab merchants at Mosul, giving the word:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Louis XVI ascended the French throne in:

  1. 1774
  2. 1789
  3. 1715
  4. 1793
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Correct answer: A. 1774

1. He was 20 years old. 2. He became king in 1774. 3. He found an empty treasury. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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Louis XVI was married to the Austrian princess:

  1. Maria Theresa
  2. Marie Antoinette
  3. Marie Louise
  4. Anne of Austria
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Correct answer: B. Marie Antoinette

1. The court at Versailles was extravagant. 2. His queen was Marie Antoinette. 3. She was executed shortly after him in 1793. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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In eighteenth-century France, which estate alone paid taxes to the state?

  1. Second estate
  2. Noble estate
  3. Third estate
  4. First estate
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Correct answer: C. Third estate

1. The clergy and nobility were exempt by birth. 2. Only the third estate paid taxes. 3. This society is called the Old Regime. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World I, Chapter 1, The French Revolution._

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