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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were united.
(b) He says they were efficient.
(c) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(d) He says they were unfree.

2. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Russia.
(c) Britain's colonies.
(d) France.

3. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?
(a) They weakened the government.
(b) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.
(c) They made the government more efficient.
(d) They widened the gap between rich and poor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?

2. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?

3. What crucial event does Hobsbawm say took place during the period after the French Revolution?

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

5. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

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