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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 Code of Napoleon?
(a) The criminal law instituted by Napoleon.
(b) The bureaucratic system instituted in France.
(c) The currency policy that financed the Napoleonic wars.
(d) The reform that abolished feudalism.

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

3. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Leipzig.

4. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1789-1815.
(b) 1812-1815.
(c) 1792-1815.
(d) 1791-1812.

5. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Prussia.
(b) France's war with Russia.
(c) France's war with Austria.
(d) France's war with Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

2. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

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

4. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?

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

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