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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The French Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) France.
(b) Britain's colonies.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Russia.

2. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?
(a) They made the government more efficient.
(b) They weakened the government.
(c) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.
(d) They widened the gap between rich and poor.

3. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
(a) Lord and vassal.
(b) Communal ownership.
(c) Frontiersmen were opening new lands in Europe.
(d) Landlord and tenant-farmer.

4. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?
(a) The common people.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The nobles.
(d) The merchants.

5. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) Because they helped the Americans in their Revolutionary War.
(b) Because they had brought too many workers into the labor force, and devalued their currency.
(c) Because they had lost Canada to the British.
(d) Because they had overextended themselves in their colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

2. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

3. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

5. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?

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