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In this Class 9 History topic from the chapter The French Revolution, students learn how France’s financial crisis, social inequality and political tensions led to revolutionary action in 1789. The section explains the meeting of the Estates-General, the formation of the National Assembly, the Tennis Court Oath and the storming of the Bastille. It also introduces popular uprisings in Paris and the countryside, showing how ordinary people became central to the revolution’s course.
Practice questions
01 The rise of Paris Commune and National Guard shows which urban side of the Revolution?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Citizens became active in local government and security
Explanation: These institutions showed the political and security role of urban citizens. Link them with local power.
03 If someone says before Bastille the Revolution was only of leaders which fact corrects it?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. People had already become active over the bread crisis and the search for arms
Explanation: A is correct. Even before the storming of the Bastille, people in Paris were affected by high bread prices and shortages, and crowds were actively searching for weapons. This shows that the Revolution was not confined to political leaders and the National Assembly; ordinary people were participating too. D is wrong because cahiers, or lists of grievances, were prepared for the elections to the Estates General in 1789. Exam tip: Remember the Bastille not merely as a fortress, but as a major symbol of popular participation in the Revolution.
06 How should an expert answer connect 5 May 20 June and 14 July 1789?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. As the sequence of the meeting of the Estates General, the Tennis Court Oath, and the popular attack on the Bastille
Explanation: On 5 May 1789, Louis XVI convened the Estates General at Versailles, where the dispute over representation and voting became critical. On 20 June, representatives of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to separate until a constitution had been framed. On 14 July, the people of Paris attacked the Bastille, an event that became a symbol of popular revolt against royal oppression. Thus, the dates show a progression from a crisis of representation to constitutional resolve and then popular action. Option B refers to later revolutionary measures, not to these dates. Exam tip: remember 5 May–Estates General, 20 June–Tennis Court Oath, 14 July–Bastille.
07 If asked how the Revolution moved from assembly to street what is the best answer?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. After National Assembly's claim the people of Paris took direct action like Bastille
Explanation: The direct answer is A: after the National Assembly asserted its political claim, Parisians took direct action such as attacking the Bastille. The Revolution moved from discussion and representation to action in the streets. The National Assembly challenged the old political order and claimed to represent the nation. Meanwhile, people in Paris acted when they feared troops, shortages, or royal repression. The Bastille attack shows how popular politics supported and pressured institutional politics. Option A is correct because it links the Assembly’s claim with direct action by citizens. Option B is wrong because the king did not simply send everyone home. Option C is wrong because the Church did not stop the Assembly and produce general calm. Option D is wrong because peasants did respond through rural unrest and the Great Fear. Exam cue: “assembly to street” means representative action followed or was reinforced by popular action.
09 What common aim existed in the Declaration of Rights and the end of feudal privileges?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Establishing equality before law and ending birth-based privileges
Explanation: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen affirmed liberty and equality before the law. The abolition of feudal privileges challenged the birth-based advantages of nobles and clergy, as well as feudal dues imposed on peasants. Thus, both measures aimed to dismantle the old unequal order and establish equality. Expanding royal power would have been the opposite of this revolutionary objective. Exam tip: Link the abolition of privileges with legal and social equality.
10 Which statement gives the best comparative analysis of the Tennis Court Oath and storming of Bastille?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The first was constitutional resolve of deputies and the second direct challenge by people
Explanation: The Tennis Court Oath and the storming of the Bastille were both revolutionary challenges to royal authority, but they were different kinds of action. On 20 June 1789, deputies of the Third Estate and their allies took the Tennis Court Oath, promising not to separate until France had a constitution. This was an organised political and constitutional act. On 14 July 1789, people of Paris stormed the Bastille, making it a direct popular attack on a symbol of royal power. Together, the events show institutional and popular forms of resistance.
Option A is correct because it makes this distinction accurately. Option B treats serious political events as sports, which is absurd. Option C reverses the two events: the Tennis Court Oath was not a prison attack, and the Bastille was not an assembly oath. Option D gives the wrong year; both occurred in 1789, not 1793. The comparison is strongest when it explains both the shared challenge and the different participants and methods.
11 Which provision of the voting system in the Estates General was a main cause of the Third Estate's opposition in 1789?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. One vote per Estate
Explanation: In the Estates General, the clergy, nobility and Third Estate had one vote each. The first two Estates could outvote the Third Estate by 2–1. Exam tip: remember this as voting by Estate, not by head.
12 What is missed if the fall of Bastille is seen only as a search for weapons?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. The significance of the people challenging a symbol of royal oppression is missed
Explanation: The attack on the Bastille was connected with the need for arms and gunpowder, but its importance was not merely practical. The Bastille symbolised absolutist monarchy and arbitrary imprisonment, so its fall was also an open popular challenge to royal oppression. Options B, C, and D are historically incorrect. Exam tip: mention both the practical and symbolic importance of the Bastille's fall.
20 The pledge not to leave in the Tennis Court Oath showed what kind of political determination?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Maintaining representative pressure until a constitution was made
Explanation: The direct answer is Option A: maintaining representative pressure until a constitution was made. The Tennis Court Oath was taken in June 1789 by members of the National Assembly after they found their usual meeting place closed. They gathered in an indoor tennis court and promised not to separate until France had a constitution. Step by step: the representatives claimed to speak for the nation; they demanded a written constitution; remaining together made their demand stronger; therefore the oath showed unity, determination and pressure on the old political system. Option A is correct because it describes a sustained constitutional struggle by representatives. Option B is wrong because the oath challenged unchecked royal power rather than making the king fully absolute. Option C is wrong because the Bastille was a prison and was not the subject of this oath. Option D is wrong because restoring feudal dues was contrary to revolutionary demands. Memory cue: Tennis Court Oath means “no separation before constitution.”
21 Why was the coming together of Mirabeau and Sieyes uncomfortable for the estate system?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Because people from different social backgrounds were strengthening the Third Estate's political claim
Explanation: Mirabeau was a noble and Sieyes was clergy yet both linked with anti-privilege politics. Exam tip: write the difference between birth and ideas.
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