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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 does Hobsbawm say revolts turned against in this period?
(a) Mercantile colonialism.
(b) Absentee landlords.
(c) Aristocratic rule.
(d) Alien rule.

2. Where did the idea that Hobsbawm says was developing after 1830 first take root?
(a) In the middle classes.
(b) In the working poor.
(c) In the destitute.
(d) In the bourgeoisie.

3. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?
(a) Because agriculture thrived in England's moister climate.
(b) Because the rest of the continent was consumed in war.
(c) Becaue only Britain had the commercial strength and social conditions for it.
(d) Because the Industrial Revolution required a cooler climate.

4. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Moral philosophy.
(b) Per capita trade.
(c) Raw material production.
(d) Political freedoms.

5. What was increasing at the same time that the railroads were expanding in the 1830s?
(a) Religion.
(b) Migration.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Superstition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state were other economies in 1848?

2. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

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

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

5. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

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