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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?
(a) The merchants.
(b) The nobles.
(c) The bourgeoisie.
(d) The common people.

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

3. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Britain's colonies.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Thailand.

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

5. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) Because they had overextended themselves in their colonies.
(b) Because they had brought too many workers into the labor force, and devalued their currency.
(c) Because they had lost Canada to the British.
(d) Because they helped the Americans in their Revolutionary War.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?

3. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

4. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?

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

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