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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.

2. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) They helped turn over their wealth and the Church's wealth to the people.
(b) They organized resistance within France.
(c) They turned their estates into communes.
(d) They fled to other monarchies.

3. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Austria.

4. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Religion and philosophy.
(b) Science and commerce.
(c) Arts and music.
(d) Morality and ethics.

5. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Iron.
(b) Coal.
(c) Copper.
(d) Magnesium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?

2. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

3. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

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

5. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

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