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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. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Merchants and investors.
(b) The working classes.
(c) All strata of society invested in the railroads.
(d) Nobles and aristocrats.

2. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Leipzig.
(d) Waterloo.

3. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?
(a) The price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.
(b) The country was burdened with too much debt.
(c) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.
(d) The government could not raise an army large enough for any invasions.

4. What began to develop as industrialism developed in Europe?
(a) Lower prices as producers competed for buyers.
(b) An arms race between nations.
(c) A trade war over tariffs.
(d) A gap between developed and un-developed nations.

5. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What state were other economies in 1848?

3. What was increasing at the same time that the railroads were expanding in the 1830s?

4. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?

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

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