CBSE - French Revolution

A kind of tax called Taille was a/an: (1) Direct tax (2) Indirect tax (3) indiscriminate tax (4) Custom duty

Peasants made about ………….. Percent of the France population at the time of revolution: (1) 70% (2) 80% (3) 50% (4) 90%

Q.1 The Third Estate comprised (1) Poor servants and small peasants, landless labourers (2) Peasants and artisans (3) Big businessmen, merchants, lawyers etc. (4) All the above

Q.8. Who wrote the pamphlet called ‘What is the Third Estate’? (1) Mirabeau, a nobleman (2) Abbe Sieyes (3) Rousseau, a philosopher (4) Montesquieu

The agitated crowd stormed and destroyed the Bastille on: (1) 4 July 1789 (2) 5 May 1789 (3) 14 July 1789 (4) 24 July 1789