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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Magnesium.
(b) Copper.
(c) Coal.
(d) Iron.

2. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Wool.
(b) Iron.
(c) Steel.
(d) Cotton.

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

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

5. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?
(a) The Barings and Rothschilds.
(b) Swiss.
(c) The Jews.
(d) The Rockefellers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

3. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

5. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

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