The French Revolution

Question 1

When was the attack on Bastille?

Answer 1

14 July 1789

Question 2

When did Louis XVI ascend the throne of France?

Answer 2

In 1774

Question 3

The term Old regime is used to describe..?

Answer 3

To describe society and institutions of France before 1789.

Question 4

Church extracted its share of taxed called?

Answer 4

Tithes

Question 5

A direct tax was paid by the third estate called?

Answer 5

Taille

Question 6

Livre

Answer 6

Unit of currency in France discontinued in 1794

Question 7

Clergy

Answer 7

Group of people invested with special functions in the church.

Question 8

Subsistence crisis

Answer 8

An extreme situation where the basic means of livelihood are endangered.

Question 9

The population of France rose from what to what in which years?

Answer 9

From 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789

Question 10

A society based in freedom and equal laws, equal opportunities for all were put forward by philosophers?

Answer 10

John Locke (Two treaties of government) and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 11

Who proposed the idea of division in power between the legislative, executive and the judiciary so that the power was divided?

Answer 11

Montesquieu in his ‘The spirit of the laws’

Question 12

The last time a meeting was held with the Estate General was?

Answer 12

In 1614

Question 13

When did Louis call the estate generals?

Answer 13

On 5 May 1789

Question 14

1792 - 93 was known as a period of

Answer 14

Reign of Terror

Question 15

Napoleon Bonaparte became the ruler on?

Answer 15

1804

Question 16

Napoleon was defeated in which year and by whom?

Answer 16

In 1815 by Waterloo

Question 17

On ________ the assembly passed a decree abolishing the feudal system of obligations and taxes.

Answer 17

4 August 1789

Question 18

The voting had now to be conducted by the assembly as a whole, where each member would have one vote. This principle was put forward by?

Answer 18

By Rousseau in his ‘The social contract’

Question 19

Name the leaders of the National Assembly

Answer 19

Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes

Question 20

Chateau

Answer 20

Castle or stately residence belonging to a king or a nobleman

Question 21

Manor

Answer 21

An estate consisting of the lord’s lands and his mansion

Question 22

The National Assembly completed the draft of the constitution in?

Answer 22

1791

Question 23

Patriotic songs people sang were? and composed by whom? It was first sung by whom?

Answer 23

They were Marseillaise, composed by Roget de L’Isle. It was sung for the first time by volunteers from Marseilles.

Question 24

Convent

Answer 24

Building belonging to a community devoted to a religious life

Question 25

Jacobins came to be known as?

Answer 25

Sans - culottes, literally meaning ‘those without knee breeches’.

Question 26

The newly elected assembly was called? When was France declared republic?

Answer 26

Convention. France was declared Republic on 21st September 1792

Question 27

Treason

Answer 27

Betrayal of one’s country or government

Question 28

All citizens were forced to eat what bread during the rule of Maximilian?

Answer 28

Pain d’égalité (equality bread)

Question 29

Robespierre was convicted in?

Answer 29

July 1794

Question 30

Emancipation

Answer 30

The act of freeing