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

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

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

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

5. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?
(a) The bourgeoisie.
(b) The monarchy.
(c) The radical element.
(d) The free market.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?

5. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?

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