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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) Austria and Prussia.
(b) Russia, Prussia and Austria.
(c) All of Europe and Britain.
(d) Britain and Russia.

3. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?
(a) Britain.
(b) Austria.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

4. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations imposed by population size.
(b) The limitations of earlier production techniques.
(c) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.
(d) The limitations imposed by years of war.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

3. Where were the French forces superior to the English?

4. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?

5. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

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