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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. Where, according to Hobsbawm, did a national movement come from the masses?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Greece.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Poland.

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

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

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

5. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
(a) It created room for new industries.
(b) It devastated the continent with non-stop fighting.
(c) It concentrated the refugee populations in cities, where they became workers.
(d) It ruined the means of production and created the possibility of socialism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?

3. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

4. Which nation led the others in industrialization?

5. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

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