Rise of the Third Estate

Q.

What was Marseillaise? What led to the formation of Marseillaise?

Q. The National Assembly of France comprised the members of ______.

1. the first estate
2. the second estate
3. the third estate
4. the first and second estates

Q. Which of the following are correct statements regarding the Reign of Terror?

1. All the members who supported the French revolution were executed.
2. It started when a committee was formed to govern France's internal affairs.
3. King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were executed.
4. These executions went on till Robespierre was freed.

Q. Which period is referred to as the 'Reign of Terror'?

1. 1791-1792
2. 1814-1815
3. 1793-1794
4. 1800-1802

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. A weak educational system was the primary cause of discontentment among the French citizens during the reign of King Louis XVI.

1. True
2. False

Q. proposed a division of power between the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary.

1. Rousseau
2. Voltaire
3. Montesquieu

Q. "There was a time we killed the King;
We tried to change the world too fast.
Now we have got another King;
He is no better than the last.
This is the land that fought for liberty –
Now when we fight we fight for bread!
Here is the thing about equality –
Everyone’s equal when they’re dead.
Take your place!
Take your chance!
Vive la France! Vive la France!"

This poem was written by Victor Hugo in his book, Les Miserables. What can we infer from the poem?

1. The poem symbolises the defeat of King Louis XVI in the French Revolution.
2. The poem symbolises the sorrows of the clergy and the nobility.
3. The poem talks about the arrival of yet another tyrant king after the French Revolution.
4. The poem symbolises the struggles within the First Estate to establish more representation for women.