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Question-1 Which group favoured absolute rule by dynasty?

(A) The aristocracy	(B)The Jacobins
(C)The Girondins	(D)The monarchists

Question-2 The Second Estate comprised of which among the following?

(A) The clergy	(B) The bourgeoisie
(C) The peasantry	(D)The nobility

Question-3 What did the Tennis Court Oath establish?

(A) That the Third Estate would accept the tax burden in return for freedom from feudal contracts	(B)That no one would be Louis XVI’s doubles partner
(C)That France would no longer support the Catholic Church	(D)That the National Assembly wouldn’t dissolve until they had created a constitution

Question-4 What problem did the August Decrees eliminate?

(A) The bread shortage	(B)The oppressive feudal contracts to which peasants were bound
(C)Uncontrolled inflation	(D)Syphilis

Question-5 Arrange the following events in chronological order of their occurrence.
i.   The Tennis Court Oath
ii.   Storming of the Tuileries
iii.   Parisian women march on Versailles
iv.   Declaration of Pillnitz

(A) iii iv ii i	(B) i iii iv ii
(C) ii i iii iv	(D)i ii iii iv

Question-6 How were the French aristocracy taxed during the time of Louis XVI?

(A) They were taxed in proportion to landholdings	(B)They were not taxed
(C)They were taxed in proportion to total net worth	(D)They paid primarily sales taxes

Question-7
Name the French currency that was backed by the value of land acquired from the church?

(A) The real	(B) The assignat
(C) The argent	(D) The franc

Question-8 Why did the radical group of commoners call themselves sans-culottes?

(A) The army had commandeered their culottes	(B)They refused to wear pants
(C)They were unlike other commoners	(D)They were distinguishing themselves from the upper class, with its high fashion

Question-9
Marie-Antoinette was the wife of which French monarch?

(A) Louis XV	(B) Louis XVI
(C) Napoleon	(D) Louis XIV

Question-10
What is the significance of August 26, 1789 in the history of France?

(A) Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre played tennis	(B) The Estates-General convened
(C) The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was issued	(D) Marie-Antoinette was executed

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