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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1812-1815.
(b) 1789-1815.
(c) 1792-1815.
(d) 1791-1812.

3. Europe was ruled by Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and which nation?
(a) Romania.
(b) Russia.
(c) China.
(d) Greece.

4. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?
(a) Revolutions should be a way of eliminating the aristocrats.
(b) Revolutions should be used as tools for developing nationalism.
(c) Revolutions should be used to reinforce the ruling class.
(d) Revolutionary movements should be contained.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

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

5. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?

(see the answer key)

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