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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?
(a) The monarchy.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The free market.
(d) The radical element.

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

3. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?
(a) With China and Indonesia.
(b) With Russia and Prussia.
(c) With its colonies.
(d) With France and Spain.

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

5. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.
(b) The limitations imposed by years of war.
(c) The limitations imposed by population size.
(d) The limitations of earlier production techniques.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?

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

3. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

4. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?

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

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