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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were efficient.
(b) He says they were united.
(c) He says they were unfree.
(d) He says they were part-owners in the estates.

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.

4. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) They helped turn over their wealth and the Church's wealth to the people.
(b) They fled to other monarchies.
(c) They turned their estates into communes.
(d) They organized resistance within France.

5. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?
(a) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.
(b) Hobsbawm says that much of the Earth was still unexplored.
(c) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the population was bigger than today.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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

3. Who was represented by the "Third Estate" in France?

4. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?

5. What was Robespierre's role in the Reign of Terror?

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