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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1793.

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

4. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Coal.
(b) Iron.
(c) Copper.
(d) Magnesium.

5. Who dominated the Orthodox Church in 1848?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Russia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?

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

5. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Hobsbawm say the European nations expanded their influence, for lack of war in Europe?

2. Who, in Hobsbawm's account, formed the foundation for what Hobsbawm calls "self-conscious' nationalism?

3. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?

4. What does Hobsbawm say were the monarchies' relationships with land use and the economy in 1780?

5. What was the effect, in Hobsbawm's account, of the American Revolution on the French Revolution?

6. How does Hobsbawm say that the political atmosphere changed after the French Revolution?

7. What does Hobsbawm say is the difference between revolts and national movements?

8. Describe Robespierre's influence on the French Revolution.

9. Describe the final defeat of the French forces at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

10. How did the French Revolution proceed from 1792 to 1794?

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