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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Peace.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He outsourced the business of governing.
(b) He proposed new taxes.
(c) He borrowed from the merchants.
(d) He called a States General.

2. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?
(a) "preparation for some of the greatest changes mankind would know."
(b) "the end of classical Europe."
(c) "the most important event in world history."
(d) "the beginning of the modern age."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the international congress among Europe's ruling nations dissolve after a few years?

3. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?

4. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?

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