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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Science and Conclusion: Towards 1848.

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. What is the paradox in France's failure to develop its industries?
(a) The peasants had more autonomy as a result of land reforms, but they were not well positioned to capitalize on their land.
(b) The aristocracy lost the land, but retained the right to what the land produced.
(c) The peasants gained more political power, but with so many voices, the government was paralyzed.
(d) The workers became more efficient, but the cost of living skyrocketed.

3. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?
(a) Secularism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Apprenticeship.
(d) Sons following into their fathers' professions.

4. Where were the French forces superior to the English?
(a) In the colonies.
(b) In the navy.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In the army.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

2. What did working-class organizers promise the workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew wider?

3. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

5. What does Hobsbawm say made the Age of Revolution the 'ugliest' period yet?

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