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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?

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

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

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