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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Buy locally, sell globally.
(b) Get big or die.
(c) Buy low, sell high.
(d) Create a niche.

2. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1791.

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

4. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?
(a) Freedom movements in the Catalan region.
(b) New forms of government.
(c) Resistance to democracy.
(d) Resistance to monarchy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

2. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

3. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

5. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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