French Revolution Class 9 MCQs with Answers
Practice 50 important MCQs on the French Revolution for Class 9 History. This revised question set covers French society, the Estates General, the National Assembly, revolutionary symbols, the Constitution of 1791, the Jacobins, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon and the legacy of the French Revolution.
50 MCQsClass 9 HistoryNCERTAnswers Included
How to use this page: Try each question before looking at the answer. The questions are designed for quick Class 9 History revision and are aligned with the major concepts of the NCERT French Revolution chapter.
French Society and Enlightenment Ideas
1. On which date was the Bastille stormed?
Correct answer: A) 14 July 1789
2. What did the Bastille symbolise?
Correct answer: B) The despotic power of the king
3. French society in the eighteenth century was divided into how many Estates?
Correct answer: B) Three
4. Which groups formed the privileged Estates?
Correct answer: A) Clergy and nobility
5. Which was an important privilege enjoyed by the clergy and nobility?
Correct answer: A) Exemption from many state taxes
6. Which group increasingly believed that social position should depend on merit?
Correct answer: A) The middle class
7. Who argued against the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch?
Correct answer: A) John Locke
8. Who proposed a government based on a social contract between people and their representatives?
Correct answer: B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. Who proposed the division of government power among the legislature, executive and judiciary?
Correct answer: C) Montesquieu
10. Which work by Montesquieu advocated the division of governmental powers?
Correct answer: B) The Spirit of the Laws
Estates General and the National Assembly
11. Who was the king of France when the Revolution began?
Correct answer: C) Louis XVI
12. Which political body represented the three Estates of pre-revolutionary France?
Correct answer: B) Estates General
13. When was the Estates General last convened before 1789?
Correct answer: B) 1614
14. When did Louis XVI call the Estates General in 1789?
Correct answer: A) 5 May 1789
15. Where did the representatives of the Third Estate assemble after being locked out of their hall?
Correct answer: B) Indoor Tennis Court
16. Who were prominent leaders of the Third Estate during the formation of the National Assembly?
Correct answer: A) Mirabeau and Abbé Sieyès
17. What did the Third Estate declare itself to be on 17 June 1789?
Correct answer: B) The National Assembly
18. What did the representatives swear in the Tennis Court Oath?
Correct answer: B) Not to disperse until a constitution was drafted
19. Which pamphlet was written by Abbé Sieyès?
Correct answer: C) What Is the Third Estate?
20. What was a major cause of the subsistence crisis in France?
Correct answer: A) Rapid population growth increased demand for food grains
Crisis, Constitution and Revolutionary Rights
21. What was the staple food of the majority of people in France?
Correct answer: B) Bread
22. What did the severe winter of 1788–89 contribute to?
Correct answer: B) A bad harvest and rising food prices
23. Who collected the tithe from peasants?
Correct answer: A) The Church
24. What was the direct tax paid to the state called?
Correct answer: B) Taille
25. What did the peasants attack during the Great Fear?
Correct answer: B) Châteaux and manorial records
26. What did the peasants often burn during the Great Fear?
Correct answer: B) Documents recording manorial dues
27. What did the Constitution of 1791 establish?
Correct answer: B) A constitutional monarchy
28. What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen proclaim?
Correct answer: A) Natural and inalienable rights
29. Which of the following was an 'active citizen' under the Constitution of 1791?
Correct answer: B) A man above 25 who paid the required tax
30. Which right was NOT granted equally to women by the Constitution of 1791?
Correct answer: C) Political voting rights
Symbols, Political Change and the Republic
31. What did the broken chain symbolise in revolutionary imagery?
Correct answer: B) The act of becoming free
32. What did the bundle of rods or fasces symbolise?
Correct answer: B) Strength in unity
33. Which symbol represented eternity?
Correct answer: B) Snake biting its tail to form a ring
34. What did the winged woman represent?
Correct answer: A) The law
35. What were the national colours of revolutionary France?
Correct answer: A) Blue, white and red
36. Who composed 'La Marseillaise'?
Correct answer: B) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
37. Which political club became the most successful and was associated with Robespierre?
Correct answer: B) Jacobins
38. What did the term 'sans-culottes' literally refer to?
Correct answer: A) Those without knee breeches
39. On 21 September 1792, France was declared a:
Correct answer: B) Republic
40. Why was Louis XVI executed?
Correct answer: A) He was convicted of treason
Reign of Terror, Napoleon and the Legacy
41. When was the Reign of Terror in France?
Correct answer: C) 1793–1794
42. Who led the Jacobin government during the Reign of Terror?
Correct answer: B) Maximilien Robespierre
43. Which device was used for executions by beheading during the Revolution?
Correct answer: A) The guillotine
44. What was the name of the newly elected assembly that governed France after the monarchy was abolished?
Correct answer: A) Convention
45. Which body ruled France after the Convention and before Napoleon's rise to power?
Correct answer: A) Directory
46. How many directors formed the executive of the Directory?
Correct answer: B) Five
47. In which year did Napoleon Bonaparte crown himself Emperor of France?
Correct answer: C) 1804
48. Which reform is associated with Napoleon's rule?
Correct answer: B) Protection of private property and a uniform system of weights and measures
49. When was slavery finally abolished in the French colonies?
Correct answer: D) 1848
50. Who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen?
Correct answer: A) Olympe de Gouges
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