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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) They turned their estates into communes.
(b) They helped turn over their wealth and the Church's wealth to the people.
(c) They fled to other monarchies.
(d) They organized resistance within France.

2. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?
(a) The common people.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The nobles.
(d) The merchants.

3. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Get big or die.
(b) Buy locally, sell globally.
(c) Create a niche.
(d) Buy low, sell high.

4. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Russia.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Britain's colonies.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

2. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?

3. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

4. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?

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