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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 result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?
(a) Decreased need for labor.
(b) Decreased farm size.
(c) Increased output.
(d) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.

2. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?
(a) Revolutionaries and radicals.
(b) The working poor.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The middle class.

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

4. 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 made the government more efficient.
(d) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The ancient Greeks.
(d) The French Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?

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

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

4. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

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

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