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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Career Open to Talent.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) At home.
(b) In communal workshops.
(c) In warehouses.
(d) In the market.

3. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) Feudal domains.
(b) Farmland again, after years of being battefields.
(c) A tamed beast.
(d) A commodity that could be bought and sold.

4. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?
(a) The British House of Lords.
(b) The British House of Commons.
(c) The American House of Representatives.
(d) The American Senate.

5. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) Russia.
(b) Australia.
(c) China.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state were other economies in 1848?

2. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?

3. Who dominated the Orthodox Church in 1848?

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

5. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

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