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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?
(a) Austria.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Russia.

2. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?
(a) That Europe was not ready for democracy yet.
(b) That power will always reside in the aristocracy's hands.
(c) That people could rise up to fight for their freedom.
(d) That tyrants could use popular uprisings for their own purposes.

3. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Aristocratic political power.
(b) Local trade.
(c) Religious faith.
(d) Hand-crafts.

4. What was Robespierre's role in the Reign of Terror?
(a) He was persecuted by it.
(b) He incited the people to carry it out.
(c) He oversaw it.
(d) He conceived the idea for it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?

2. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

3. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

4. What does Hobsbawm say revolutionary groups had in common across Europe in 1848?

5. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?

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