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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?
(a) A permanently poor underclass.
(b) A self-identified working class.
(c) Mechanisms for suppressing revolutions.
(d) State surveillance techniques.

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

3. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Greece.
(c) Spain.
(d) Turkey.

4. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
(a) The need for profit.
(b) The need to dominate trade routes.
(c) The need for monopoly.
(d) The need for mercantile power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?

2. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

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

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

5. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?

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