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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The Romantic period.

4. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?
(a) State surveillance techniques.
(b) A self-identified working class.
(c) A permanently poor underclass.
(d) Mechanisms for suppressing revolutions.

5. What did revolutionaries see as the goal of their revolutions?
(a) Making aristocratic government responsive to commoners' needs.
(b) Making revolution a permanent aspect of society.
(c) Giving government back to the people.
(d) Seizing control over government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

2. Which nation was the exception to the rule that Europe was ruled by absolute monarchs, in the late 1700s?

3. What quality distinguished the revolutions that took place in 1848 from earlier revolutions, according to Hobsbawm?

4. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

5. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

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