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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
(a) Lord and vassal.
(b) Communal ownership.
(c) Frontiersmen were opening new lands in Europe.
(d) Landlord and tenant-farmer.

2. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Political theory and practice.
(b) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(c) Farmers and craftsmen.
(d) Part-time craftsmen and markets.

3. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Britain's colonies.
(b) Russia.
(c) Thailand.
(d) France.

4. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?
(a) The Rockefellers.
(b) The Barings and Rothschilds.
(c) The Jews.
(d) Swiss.

5. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Prussia.
(b) France's war with Austria.
(c) France's war with Russia.
(d) France's war with Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?

2. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

3. Where were the French forces superior to the English?

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

5. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

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