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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Selling government positions to noblemen.
(b) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(c) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(d) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.

2. 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.

3. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) Because they had lost Canada to the British.
(b) Because they had overextended themselves in their colonies.
(c) Because they helped the Americans in their Revolutionary War.
(d) Because they had brought too many workers into the labor force, and devalued their currency.

4. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Prussia.
(b) France's war with Russia.
(c) France's war with Austria.
(d) France's war with Britain.

5. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?
(a) The Concert of Europe.
(b) The European Assembly.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) The European Convention.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?

3. Who does Hobsbawm say identified themselves with local traditions?

4. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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

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