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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 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 Russia.
(d) France's war with Austria.

2. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were unfree.
(b) He says they were efficient.
(c) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(d) He says they were united.

3. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1791.

4. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations of earlier production techniques.
(b) The limitations imposed by years of war.
(c) The limitations imposed by population size.
(d) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.

5. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
(a) The need for monopoly.
(b) The need for profit.
(c) The need for mercantile power.
(d) The need to dominate trade routes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

5. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?

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