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

2. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?
(a) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.
(b) Decreased need for labor.
(c) Increased output.
(d) Decreased farm size.

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

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?
(a) Waterloo.
(b) Leipzig.
(c) The Marne.
(d) Moscow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?

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

3. Which nation led the others in industrialization?

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

5. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

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