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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025 - 2026
CHAPTER/ TOPIC: FRENCH REVOLUTION
SUBJECT: HISTORY RESOURCE PERSON: SAJEENDRAN NAIR
GRADE: IX SECTION: __________ REVISION WORKSHEET No. 1
DATE: NAME OF THE STUDENT: ________________________________________
Instruction:
Fill in your answers on the given sheets itself/ or use A4 sheet (not the pages torn from note book)
Write neatly and presentable with legible handwriting.
READ CAREFULLY AND SOLVE
1. Three items A, B and C are shown on the outline map of France. Identify these items with the
help of following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on the map:
A. A place where fortress-prison was stormed by the people in 1789. _____________
B. A port of France related to slave trade. ________________
C. The National Anthem of France got its name from the name of this place. _____________
D. Center of peasants’ panic movement. __________________
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2. Look at the picture given below and write at least three sentences about the
person.
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3. Match the pairs:
It was a tax levied by the church comprising of TAILLE
one-tenth of the agricultural produce.
It was a tax to be paid directly to the state.
MANOR
An extreme situation where the basic means of OLD REGIME
livelihood are endangered
This term is usually used to describe the society
and institutions of France before 1789. TITHES
An estate consisting of the lord’s
lands and his mansion CLERGY
Group of persons invested with special functions
SUBSISTENCE CRISIS
in the church
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4. Answer in one word or one sentence:
a) Name the book that has proposed a division of power within the government?
b) What is Livre?
c) Name the military dictator who established his power over France after the dismissal of
Directory?
d) Who wrote the book “Two Treatises of the Government”?
e) Who composed the patriotic song Marseillaise?
f) Who was the head of Jacobin Club?
g) When was slavery finally abolished in French colonies?
h) Who were given the status of active citizens?
i) Who were called the passive citizens?
5. Answer in brief (30 to 50 words):
a. What was the social division in French society?
b. What was guillotine?
c. What was old regime? What was the power that monarch didn’t have relate to tax?
d. What is meant by reign of terror? What was the reason for calling the same?
e. Write any three reforms brought by Maximillian Robespierre.
f. What is Directory? Why it caused political instability?
g. What is Triangular Trade?
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