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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 age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) The Enlightenment.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The Romantic period.

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

3. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Smaller than today for some people, but larger for others.
(b) They were much more spread out.
(c) Much larger than today.
(d) Much smaller than today.

4. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(b) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(c) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.
(d) Selling government positions to noblemen.

5. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He proposed new taxes.
(b) He outsourced the business of governing.
(c) He called a States General.
(d) He borrowed from the merchants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

3. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

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

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

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