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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) Part-time craftsmen and markets.
(b) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(c) Political theory and practice.
(d) Farmers and craftsmen.

2. 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 the population was bigger than today.
(c) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.
(d) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.

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

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

5. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) Modernism.
(b) The Romantic period.
(c) The Enlightenment.
(d) The Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. Where were the French forces superior to the English?

3. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?

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