In which situation do political awareness and economic crisis combine?

The middle class criticises unequal taxes while the poor suffer from costly bread

Option C correctly combines political awareness with an economic crisis. Political awareness appears when the middle class questions unequal taxation, inherited privilege and the lack of equal representation. The economic crisis appears when poor people face rising bread prices while wages fail to keep pace, threatening their basic subsistence. These two developments could reinforce one another: people who suffered materially became more receptive to criticism of the political order, while educated groups supplied arguments against privilege. Option A describes prosperity, not crisis. Option B strengthens privilege instead of challenging it, and option D is historically irrelevant. The governing idea is that the French Revolution grew from the interaction of social criticism and severe livelihood problems.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: The French Revolution. Topic: French Society During the Late Eighteenth Century.