Who supported the third estate members even though he belonged to the Nobility?
Important Questions on The French Revolution
Read the statements and select the correct answer form the options given below:
Statement – I: On th May, , Louis XVI called together an assembly of the Estate General to pass proposals for new taxes.
Statement – II: The members of the third estate demanded that voting now be conducted by the principle that each estate had one vote.
Match Column A with Column Band choose the correct option-
| Column A | Column B |
| (I) Rousseau | (a) Two Treatises of Government |
| (II) Montesquieu | (b) Marseillaise |
| (III) Locke | (c) The Social Contract |
| (IV) Roget de L'isle | (d) The Spirit of the Laws |
Arrange the following events of French Revolution in a chronological sequence
I) Louis XVI is guillotined
II) The Oath of the Tennis court
Ill) The Bastille fall
IV) The French Republic is declared
V) The Great Fear
Statement I: Long years of war and the cost of extravagant court of the king drained the financial resources of France.
Statement II: Only the members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state.
Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:
Column A Column B
1. Kulaks i. Collective farms
2. Collectivisation programme ii. Stalin programme
3. Kolkhoz iii. Well to-do peasants in Russia
Match the given column I with column II:
| Column I | Column II |
| 1. Subsistence Crisis | (i) Refuted the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch in 'Two Treatises of Government' |
| 2. John Locke | (ii) Proposed a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary in 'The Spirit of the Laws' |
| 3. Jean Jacques Rousseau | (iii) Occurred frequently in France during the old regime |
| 4. Montesquieu | (iv) Proposed a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives |
Match the items of column A with the corresponding items of column B and select the correct choice:
Column A Column B
1. Pain d'egalite i. Patriotic song which is not the national anthem of France.
2. Marseillaise ii. Whole wheat flour bread
3. Manor iii. Castle or stately residence belonging to a king or a nobleman
4. Chateau iv Estate consisting of lord's lands and his mansion
