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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Buy locally, sell globally.
(b) Buy low, sell high.
(c) Create a niche.
(d) Get big or die.

2. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) At home.
(b) In the market.
(c) In communal workshops.
(d) In warehouses.

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Part-time craftsmen and markets.
(b) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(c) Farmers and craftsmen.
(d) Political theory and practice.

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

5. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?
(a) Because the rest of the continent was consumed in war.
(b) Because the Industrial Revolution required a cooler climate.
(c) Because agriculture thrived in England's moister climate.
(d) Becaue only Britain had the commercial strength and social conditions for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?

2. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

4. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?

5. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

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