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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?
(a) The free market.
(b) The monarchy.
(c) The radical element.
(d) The bourgeoisie.

4. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?
(a) The American Senate.
(b) The British House of Commons.
(c) The American House of Representatives.
(d) The British House of Lords.

5. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) China.
(b) Russia.
(c) India.
(d) Australia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

5. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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