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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?
(a) Because the treaties signed after the French Revolution forbade it.
(b) Because the nations were bound by alliances.
(c) Because there was a relative balance of powers.
(d) Because the populaces had all been decimated.

3. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
(a) The need for monopoly.
(b) The need for profit.
(c) The need to dominate trade routes.
(d) The need for mercantile power.

4. 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.

5. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?
(a) "preparation for some of the greatest changes mankind would know."
(b) "the most important event in world history."
(c) "the end of classical Europe."
(d) "the beginning of the modern age."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?

3. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?

4. Where did the second wave of revolutions take place?

5. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

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