Rise of the Third Estate

Q. The representatives of the Third Estate assembled at a/the for the meeting of the Estates General.

1. Palace of Versailles
2. tennis court
3. National Assembly

Q. Which among the following statements are true regarding the 'Reign of Terror'?

1. Ex-nobles and members of the clergy were arrested and imprisoned.
2. Robespierre led the Reign of Terror to resolve his personal vengeance.
3. Robespierre placed his family members in official government positions.
4. Churches were shut down and converted into government offices.

Q. Base your responses on the passage provided below:

"During the greater part of the day, the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work... Every aristocrat was a traitor... For two hundred years now, the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those who had helped to make these courts brilliant had to hide for their lives".

Which option best summarises the views of the author of this passage?

1. The common people of the nation deserved to be punished for violating the country’s laws.
2. The nobility was being punished for bringing benefits to the nation.
3. In response to past abuses by the clergy and nobility, the common people staged a bloody revolt.
4. The goals of fraternity, equality, and liberty were achieved in the period of absolute monarchy.

Q. Give a brief description of the reign of terror led by Maximillian Robespierre.

Q. The members of Jacobian Club forcefully entered which Palace and held the king as a hostage?

1. Palace of Versailles
2. Palace of Tuileries
3. Palace of Westminster
4. Palace of London

Q. What is the common factor between people like Turgot, Necker, Calonne, Brienne?

1. They were the King's Foreign ministers.
2. They used to oppress the commoners by the order of the king.
3. They were prominent educators in the French society.
4. They were the King's Finance ministers.

Q. Who was the revolutionary leader from the Jacobin party?

1. Rousseau
2. Napoleon
3. Montesquieu
4. Robespierre