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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?
(a) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.
(b) The country was burdened with too much debt.
(c) The price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.
(d) The government could not raise an army large enough for any invasions.

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

3. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?
(a) The free market.
(b) The radical element.
(c) The bourgeoisie.
(d) The monarchy.

4. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Finland.
(b) The independence of Turkey.
(c) The independence of Greece.
(d) The independence of Poland.

5. Where were the French forces superior to the English?
(a) In the navy.
(b) In the mountains.
(c) In the army.
(d) In the colonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

2. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

3. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

4. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?

5. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

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