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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) The farm country.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The islands.
(d) The seacoasts.

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

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

4. When does Hobsbawm say the second wave of revolutions took place?
(a) 1830s.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1815.

5. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?
(a) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.
(b) The country was burdened with too much debt.
(c) The government could not raise an army large enough for any invasions.
(d) The price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?

4. How did the concept of nationalism spread through Europe?

5. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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