Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 9 (CBSE) · Social Science
Chapter: Chapter 1 — Chapter 1: The French Revolution
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. How was French society divided before the revolution? [1]
(A) Into three estates
(B) Into two classes only
(C) Equally, with no divisions
(D) Into ten separate castes
2. Which estate bore the heaviest taxation? [1]
(A) The Third Estate (commoners)
(B) The clergy (First Estate)
(C) The nobility (Second Estate)
(D) No estate paid taxes
3. What economic problems fuelled the revolution? [1]
(A) Food shortages and government debt
(B) Economic prosperity
(C) No economic problems existed
(D) Only foreign trade issues
4. Who were key Enlightenment thinkers? [1]
(A) Rousseau and Voltaire
(B) Napoleon and Robespierre
(C) Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
(D) Karl Marx and Lenin
5. What did Enlightenment ideas promote? [1]
(A) Liberty and equality
(B) Absolute monarchy
(C) Religious dominance
(D) Maintaining strict social hierarchy
6. What did Enlightenment ideas question? [1]
(A) The divine right of kings
(B) The existence of the nobility only
(C) Nothing about government
(D) Only religious practices
7. What event marked the start of the French Revolution? [1]
(A) The storming of the Bastille
(B) A peace treaty signing
(C) A royal wedding
(D) A trade agreement
8. When did the French Revolution begin? [1]
(A) 1789
(B) 1917
(C) 1800
(D) 1750
9. What did the Bolsheviks do after seizing power? [1]
(A) Withdrew from WWI and nationalised industries
(B) Continued fighting in WWI
(C) Restored the monarchy
(D) Sold all industries to foreign investors
10. What was redistributed to peasants? [1]
(A) Land from wealthy landowners
(B) Money from banks
(C) Foreign investments
(D) Nothing was redistributed
11. When did the Russian Civil War occur? [1]
(A) 1918-1922
(B) 1917 only
(C) 1939-1945
(D) 1900-1905
12. Who fought in the civil war? [1]
(A) The Red Army and White Army
(B) Only foreign powers
(C) Only peasants against workers
(D) No civil war occurred
13. Who won the Russian Civil War? [1]
(A) The Bolsheviks (Red Army)
(B) The White Army
(C) Foreign powers
(D) No clear winner emerged
14. When was the USSR established? [1]
(A) 1922
(B) 1917
(C) 1945
(D) 1905
15. Who led rapid industrialisation later in the USSR? [1]
(A) Joseph Stalin
(B) Vladimir Lenin
(C) Tsar Nicholas II
(D) Karl Marx
16. What did collectivisation of agriculture involve? [1]
(A) Combining individual farms into collective ones
(B) Only individual private farms
(C) No change to farming
(D) Only foreign-owned farms