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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Towards an Industrial World.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
(a) The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
(b) New trade routes and peace after the war.
(c) The population explosion and the railroad.
(d) The destruction of the French Revolution and the population explosion.

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 to reinforce the ruling class.
(c) Revolutions should be used as tools for developing nationalism.
(d) Revolutionary movements should be contained.

5. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?
(a) Greece.
(b) Albania.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?

2. What did France produce as other countries' economies changed?

3. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?

4. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

5. Where, according to Hobsbawm, did a national movement come from the masses?

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