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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The French Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(b) He says they were unfree.
(c) He says they were united.
(d) He says they were efficient.

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

3. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?
(a) Because agriculture thrived in England's moister climate.
(b) Becaue only Britain had the commercial strength and social conditions for it.
(c) Because the Industrial Revolution required a cooler climate.
(d) Because the rest of the continent was consumed in war.

4. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?
(a) The middle class.
(b) Revolutionaries and radicals.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The working poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?

2. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

4. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?

5. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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