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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(b) Selling government positions to noblemen.
(c) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(d) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.

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

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

4. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) They turned their estates into communes.
(b) They fled to other monarchies.
(c) They organized resistance within France.
(d) They helped turn over their wealth and the Church's wealth to the people.

5. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) The farm country.
(b) The seacoasts.
(c) The islands.
(d) The mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

2. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

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

4. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?

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