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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) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.
(c) Decreased farm size.
(d) Increased output.

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

3. 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.

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

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. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?

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

5. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?

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