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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) Britain and Russia.
(b) Austria and Prussia.
(c) All of Europe and Britain.
(d) Russia, Prussia and Austria.

2. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?
(a) That power will always reside in the aristocracy's hands.
(b) That Europe was not ready for democracy yet.
(c) That tyrants could use popular uprisings for their own purposes.
(d) That people could rise up to fight for their freedom.

3. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He called a States General.
(b) He borrowed from the merchants.
(c) He proposed new taxes.
(d) He outsourced the business of governing.

4. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) The working classes.
(b) All strata of society invested in the railroads.
(c) Merchants and investors.
(d) Nobles and aristocrats.

5. What group does Hobsbawm say typified the revolutionary groups that became active in 1848?
(a) The Carbonari.
(b) The Luddites.
(c) The Jacobins.
(d) The Chartists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. Which nation led the others in industrialization?

3. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

4. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

5. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

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