French Revolution Worksheet I

(Word search)

1. A large French country house or stately residence belonging to a king or a nobleman.
Answer- Chateau
2. To whom was the tax called Tithes payable by the peasants in the eighteenth century France?
Answer- Church
3. Building belonging to a community devoted to a religious life.
Answer- Convent
4. What does the Red Cap worn by Sans-Culottes in France symbolize?
Answer- Liberty.
5. Who wrote the book ‘The Social Contract’?
Answer- Rousseau
6. Who had refuted the doctrine of the divine and absolute rights of the Monarch?
Answer- Locke


1. In ___________Locke sought to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch.
Answer-Two Treaties of Government

2. The third estate assembled in an indoor tennis court of Versailles and declared themselves as the ___________.

Answer-National Assembly

3. ____________was a fortress in Paris that was used as a state prison by the kings of France.

Answer- Bastille
4. ___________ was the group of persons vested with special functions in the church.

Answer – Clergy

5. _______________ was the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and was primarily concerned with property values.

Answer-Bourgeoisie class

6. _________________ was a large French country house or stately residence belonging to a king or a nobleman.

Answer-Chateau

(True and False)

1. Louis XVI ascended the throne in the year 12th May, 1774.
Answer- False

Explanation- On 10th May, 1774 Louis XVI ascended the throne.
2. The slave trade began in the seventeenth century.

Answer- True

3. Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of voting.
Answer-False
Explanation-Louis XVI was sentenced to death by a court on the charge of treason. On 21st January 1793, he was executed publicly at the Place de la Concorde.


4. The action of betraying one’s country or a government is known as Treason.
Answer- True

5. In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of France.
Answer - True