French Revolution Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. Voting in the Estates General was conducted on the principle of

1. male adult franchise
2. universal adult franchise
3. each Estate one vote
4. each member one vote

17. Which of the following was a factor in the rise of Napoleon?

1. Robespierres Reign of Terror
2. Political instability of the Directory
3. Nationalist forces
4. Fall of the Jacobin government

18. Which of the following were the estates of French society?

1. Second Estate
2. Third Estate
3. All the above
4. First Estate

19. Which of the following is true about the Clergy and Nobles and Landlords?

1. They were exempted from paying many of the taxes
2. They enjoyed number of privilages
3. All the above
4. Higher positions in the government were reserved for them

20. Where did the Third Estate form and announce the National Assembly?

1. Hall of Mirrors
2. Firoz Shah Ground
3. Winter Palace
4. Indoor Tennis Court

21. Which of the following is true about the Third Estate?

1. They had to pay numerous taxes
2. Their economic life was miserable
3. All the above
4. It was consisted 95% of the French population

22. Which of the following refuted the doctrine of divine and absolute right?

1. Rousseau
2. Montesquieu
3. Voltaire
4. John Locke

23. King in France at the time of the Revolution

1. Louis XVI
2. Marie Antoinette
3. Nicholas II
4. Louis XIV

24. The ill-advised queen Marie Antionette was the wife of

1. Louis XVI
2. Louis XVII
3. Louis XIV
4. Louis XV

25. Who was the successor of Louis XIV?

1. Louis XVII
2. Louis XV
3. Louis XVIII
4. Louis XVI

26. Members of the Third Estate were led by

1. Lenin and Kerensky
2. Mirabeau and Abbe Sieyes
3. Rousseau and Voltaire
4. Louis XVI and Marie Antionette

27. Who was the successor of Louis XV?

1. Louis XIX
2. Louis XVI
3. Louis XVII
4. Louis XVIII

28. Which of the following believed social position must depend on merit?

1. Nobility
2. Workers
3. Peasants
4. Middle class

29. Society based on freedom, equal laws and opportunities was advocated by

1. clergy and nobility
2. philosophers such as John Locke and Rousseau
3. Englishmen Georges Danton and Arthur Young
4. middle class and people of the Third Estate

30. Who among the following consisted in the First Estate?

1. Priests and Church officials
2. Common People
3. Middle Class people
4. Nobles and Landlords