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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Selling government positions to noblemen.
(b) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.
(c) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(d) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.

2. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The ancient Greeks.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The French Revolution.

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 outsourced the business of governing.
(d) He proposed new taxes.

4. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) In the market.
(b) In warehouses.
(c) In communal workshops.
(d) At home.

5. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Political freedoms.
(b) Moral philosophy.
(c) Per capita trade.
(d) Raw material production.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?

3. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

5. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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