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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 the Code of Napoleon?
(a) The currency policy that financed the Napoleonic wars.
(b) The criminal law instituted by Napoleon.
(c) The bureaucratic system instituted in France.
(d) The reform that abolished feudalism.

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

3. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1832.

4. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?
(a) Greeks began to flee to the Balkans to get away from the fighting in Greece.
(b) The Greeks attained independence and fixed borders.
(c) The Russians opened trade with the Balkan areas.
(d) The Turks invaded, uniting the Balkan states against them.

5. What state were other economies in 1848?
(a) They were refining slave-based production methods.
(b) They were still linked to agriculture.
(c) They were developing politically.
(d) They were building the foundations for modern agricultural techniques.

Short Answer Questions

1. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

2. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?

3. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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

5. How did the concept of nationalism spread through Europe?

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