Deck 6: The French Revolution and Its Key Figures and Events

Question 1

The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, ………….

A)1789
B)1798
C)1799
D)1889

Answer 1

1789

Question 2

The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and continued till ………………..rose to power.

A)Napoleon Bonaparte
B)Charles Telford
C)Robert Fulton
D)Louis XIV

Answer 2

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 3

Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness for building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?"

A)Louis XIV
B)Charles I
C)James I
D)Elizabeth I

Answer 3

Louis XIV

Question 4

When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked, "After me, the deluge."

A)Louis XV
B)Edward VI
C)James II
D)Henry VIII

Question 5

Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of ……………..

A)Louis XV
B)Louis XVI
C)George I
D)Henry VIII

Question 6

………………, a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book 'The Spirit of the Laws'.

A)Montesquieu
B)Robert Fulton
C)Voltaire
D)Rousseau

Question 7

Who put forward the theory of 'the separation of powers'?

A)Voltaire
B)Montesquieu
C)Charles Telford
D)Robert Fulton

Question 8

The ………..Estate of France found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20, 1789 as a royal session was to be held there. Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous 'Tennis Court Oath'.

A)First
B)Second
C)Third
D)fourth

Question 9

July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon autocracy.

A)1779
B)1789
C)1793
D)1798

Question 10

Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National Assembly.

A)1689
B)1789
C)1786
D)1797

Question 11

The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France.

A)1781
B)1791
C)1796
D)1799

Question 12

The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France.

A)Girondists
B)The Constitutionalists
C)The Jacobins
D)Liberals

Question 13

The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type.

A)Germany
B)France
C)Italy
D)Africa

Question 14

King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was guillotined on 21st January ………

A)1746
B)1769
C)1793
D)1795

Question 15

The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the "Committee of Public Safety", consisting of 12 members led by …………………..

A)Robespierre
B)Shaftesbury
C)Diderot
D)Charles Telford

Question 16

The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the 'Committee of Public Safety', consisting of 12 members led by Robespierre. It let loose a 'reign of terror' in……….., from 1793 to 1794.

A)Germany
B)Portugal
C)France
D)Rome

Question 17

The 'reign of terror' came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierre who was guillotined on March 13, ………….

A)1736
B)1766
C)1794
D)1798

Question 18

After the ……………a committee of nine members was appointed by the National Convention to draft a new constitution.

A)Monarchical rule
B)Constitutional rule
C)reign of terror
D)Moderate

Question 19

After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the new constitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year ……………

A)Third
B)fourth
C)fifth
D)sixth

Question 20

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the ……………………..

A)American Revolution
B)English Revolution
C)French Revolution
D)Bour war

Question 21

Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence ……………..

A)2nd July 1742
B)4th July 1749
C)4th July 1776
D)4th July 1767

Question 22

……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

A)John Eliot
B)Robert Fulton
C)Thomas Jefferson
D)Robert Owen

Question 23

Who referred to his tactics thus: "I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning. Look at Caesar; he fought the first like the last."

A)Napoleon Bonaparte
B)Charles Telford
C)Alexandro Volta
D)James I

Question 24

Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre Dame de Paris

A)1704
B)1784
C)1798
D)1804