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History
9th
grade
A Growing Middle Class Envisages an End to Privileges
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- 1. Multiple Choice
In France, In the past, had peasants and workers participated in revolts against increasing taxes and food scarcity
True
False
- 2. Multiple Choice
The pesants who revolted in the past, had the means and programmes to carry out full-scale measures that would bring about a change in the social and economic order.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
Revolt and planning for the revolt was left to those groups within the third estate ______
who had become prosperous and had access to education and new ideas.
which is carried out by military or security forces against their commanders.
angry women
all of the above
- 4. Multiple Choice
The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of social groups, termed the middle class, ___________________
who earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade
from the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles
From wollen and silk textiles that were exported or bought by the richer members of society.
- 5. Multiple Choice
In addition to merchants and manufacturers, the third estate included professions such as _______
lawyers
administrative officials.
doctors
beaucrats
- 6. Multiple Choice
The professionals in the third estate were educated and believed that no group in society should be privileged by birth
True
False
- 7. Multiple Choice
The third estate believed that a person’s social position must depend on his merit.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
These ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, were put forward by philosophers such as _________
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jacques Derrida
- 9. Multiple Choice
John Locke wrote a book called:
Two Treatises of Government
The Social Contract
A Discourse on Inequality
A Treatise on Tolerance
- 10. Multiple Choice
Locke agreed with the doctrine of the divine and absolute right
True
False
- 11. Multiple Choice
Rousseau carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on ________
a social contract between people and their representatives
form of government was the rule by the best over the rest
A government that makes money without doing evil
People needed information
- 12. Multiple Choice
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu proposed _________
a division of power within the government between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary.
Parliament was the legislative branch of government.
constitutional form government
- 13. Multiple Choice
Montesquieu model of government was put into force in the _________, after the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain.
USA
France
Australia
Africa
- 14. Multiple Choice
The ______________ colonies of America declared their independence from Britain.
13
10
11
17
- 15. Fill in the Blank
The American constitution guaranteed of ____________ rights
- 16. Multiple Choice
The American constitution was an important example for political thinkers in France
True
False
- 17. Multiple Choice
The ideas of the philosophers were discussed intensively in salons and coffee-houses and spread among people through books and newspapers.
True
False
- 18. Multiple Choice
The news that Louis XVI planned to impose further taxes to be able to meet the expenses of the state generated anger and protest against the system of privileges
True
False
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