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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Political theory and practice.
(b) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(c) Farmers and craftsmen.
(d) Part-time craftsmen and markets.

2. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The ancient Greeks.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The French Revolution.

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

4. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) They were much more spread out.
(b) Smaller than today for some people, but larger for others.
(c) Much larger than today.
(d) Much smaller than today.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Europe was ruled by Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and which nation?

2. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?

3. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?

4. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

5. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?

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