Class 9 Social Science: The French Revolution Worksheet (with Answers)
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- 1. The French Revolution began in:
- (a) 1789
- (b) 1689
- (c) 1889
- (d) 1750
- 2. The storming of the Bastille took place on:
- (a) 26 January 1789
- (b) 14 July 1789
- (c) 1 May 1789
- (d) 4 July 1789
- 3. The estate that paid most taxes was the:
- (a) first estate
- (b) second estate
- (c) third estate
- (d) royal family
- 4. The king of France during the Revolution was:
- (a) Napoleon
- (b) Robespierre
- (c) Louis XIV
- (d) Louis XVI
- 5. What were the three estates?
- 6. What began the Revolution?
- 7. Explain the main causes of the French Revolution.
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- 1. (a) 1789 — It began in 1789.
- 2. (b) 14 July 1789 — It was on 14 July 1789.
- 3. (c) third estate — The third estate bore the tax burden.
- 4. (d) Louis XVI — Louis XVI was the king.
- 5. The clergy, the nobility, and the common people (third estate).
- 6. The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789.
- 7. Several causes combined to bring about the French Revolution. Socially, France was divided into three estates: the clergy and the nobility enjoyed special privileges and paid no taxes, while the third estate — peasants, workers and the middle class — carried the entire burden of taxation, creating deep resentment. Economically, the state faced a severe financial crisis from costly wars and lavish royal spending, while ordinary people suffered from rising bread prices and food shortages, a subsistence crisis. Intellectually, the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers about liberty, equality and government by consent inspired the educated middle class to question the old order. When Louis XVI tried to impose new taxes, these pressures combined and the third estate rose up, sparking the Revolution of 1789.
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