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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations imposed by population size.
(b) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.
(c) The limitations of earlier production techniques.
(d) The limitations imposed by years of war.

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

4. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He proposed new taxes.
(b) He borrowed from the merchants.
(c) He called a States General.
(d) He outsourced the business of governing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?

2. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

3. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

4. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

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

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