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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Poland.
(b) The independence of Greece.
(c) The independence of Finland.
(d) The independence of Turkey.

4. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?
(a) Because the treaties signed after the French Revolution forbade it.
(b) Because the populaces had all been decimated.
(c) Because there was a relative balance of powers.
(d) Because the nations were bound by alliances.

5. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?
(a) Hobsbawm says that much of the Earth was still unexplored.
(b) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.
(c) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the population was bigger than today.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

2. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?

3. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?

5. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?

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