The French Revolution - Objectives

Assertion (A): The church extracted its share of taxes called tithes from the peasants.

Reason (R): All members of the first and the second estate had to pay direct tax  called the taille

• Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

• Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

• A is true but R is false

• A is false but R is true

Assertion (A): The ideas of philosophers were discussed  intensively in salons and coffee-houses and spread among people through books and newspapers.

Reason (R): These were frequently read aloud in groups for the benefit of those who could not read and write

• Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

• Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

• A is true but R is false

• A is false but R is true

Assertion (A):In the countryside rumours spread from village to village that the lodge of the manor had hired bands of brigands  who were on the way to destroy the right crops

Reason (R): The members of the Jacobin club belonged mainly to the less prosperous sections of the society

• Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

• Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

• A is true but R is false

• A is false but R is true

Match the following

• Political body

• Bastille

• The fortress - prison

• Rousseau

• Bourbon family

• Mirabeau

• The Social Contract

• Louis XVI

• Noble family

• Estates General

What does this given picture signify?​ (a)  

• Liberty
• Equality
• Fraternity

Reorder the following:

a) Attack on Bastille

b)The Directory Rule in France

c)Louis XVI- King of France

d) Maximilian Robespierre- the Reign of Terror

• Attack on Bastille

• Louis XVI- King of France

• The Directory Rule in France

• Maximilian Robespierre- the Reign of Terror