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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Nobles and aristocrats.
(b) The working classes.
(c) All strata of society invested in the railroads.
(d) Merchants and investors.

3. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) The islands.
(b) The farm country.
(c) The seacoasts.
(d) The mountains.

4. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Political theory and practice.
(b) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(c) Farmers and craftsmen.
(d) Part-time craftsmen and markets.

5. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Russia.
(b) France's war with Britain.
(c) France's war with Austria.
(d) France's war with Prussia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

3. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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

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

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