FRENCH REVOLUTION

1) A triangular slave trade took place between

Europe, the Americas and:

i) Africa
ii) Asia
iii) Australia
iv) none of the above

Answer - i) Africa

2)On ………………. the city of Paris was in a state of

alarm. The king had commanded troops to move
into the city.

i) 15 July 1779
ii) 14 July 1779
iii) 15 July 1789
iv) 14 July 1789

Answer - ii) 14 July 1779

3)Finally,
a group of several hundred people
marched towards the …………….. part of the city
and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, where
they hoped to find hoarded ammunition?

i) Eastern
ii) Northern
iii) Western
iv) Southern

Answer - i) Eastern

4)Which of these books was written by John Locke?

i) The spirit of the laws

ii) Two treatises on Government
iii) The social contract
iv) All

Answer - ii) Two treatises of government

5)Which estates in France were exempted from

paying taxes?

i) The first estate

ii) The second estate
iii) first and second estate both
iv) The third estate
Answer - iii) first and second estate both

RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION
2) The Central powers during the First World War
included countries like Germany, Turkey and

(a) France
(b) Austria
(c) Britain
(d) Russia

Answer - b) Austria

2) How can you say that the ‘liberals’ were not

‘democrats’?

(a) They did not believe in universal adult franchise

(b) They felt that only men of property should have a
right to vote
(c) Women should not have right to vote
(d) All the above

Answer - d) All the above

3)n the World War I, which started in 1914, Russia

fought against

(a) Britain and France

(b) Germany and Austria
(c) America
(d) All the above

Answer - b) Germany and Austria

4)Which of the following statements is/are correct?

(a) By 1916, railway lines in Russia began to break
down
(b) There were labour shortages and small
workshops producing essentials were shut down
(c) Large supplies of grain were sent to feed the
army
(d) All the above

Answer - d) All the above

5) Which of the following statements is incorrect

about the Socialists till 1914?
(a) They helped various associations to win seats in
the parliaments in Europe
(b) Socialists, supported by strong figures in
parliamentary politics, shaped and influenced
legislation
(c) They succeeded in forming a government in
Europe
(d) Governments continued to be run by
conservatives, liberals and radicals

Answer - b)Socialists, supported by strong figures in

parliamentary politics, shaped and influenced legislation

NAZISM AND RISE

1)Who were the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany?

(a) Jews
(b) Poles
(c) Russians
(d) Gypsies
Answer - a) Jews

2) Why did the Nuremburg Tribunal sentence only

11 Nazis to death for such a massive genocide?
(a) Only these 11 Nazis were found guilty
(b) The Allies did not want to be harsh on the
defeated Germany as they had been after WorldWar
(c) Germany promised never to repeat such an act
(d) Germany was ready to pay a huge compensation
to the Allied countries for these killings

Answer - b) The Allies did not want to be harsh on the defeated

Germany as they had been after WorldWar

3) The game Hitler glorified was

(a) wrestling
(b) kabaddi
(c) hockey
(d) boxing

Answer - d) boxing

4)Hitler became the Chancellor or Germany in which

year

(a) 1931
(b) 1932
(c) 1933
(d) 1934

Answer - c) 1933

5)Reichstag refers to

(a) Imperial Germany

(b) German Parliament
(c) French Parliament
(d) Imperial England

Answer - b) German parliament