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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the French forces superior to the English?
(a) In the mountains.
(b) In the navy.
(c) In the army.
(d) In the colonies.

2. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Leipzig.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Waterloo.

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

4. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
(a) New trade routes and peace after the war.
(b) The destruction of the French Revolution and the population explosion.
(c) The population explosion and the railroad.
(d) The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

2. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?

3. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

4. When does Hobsbawm say the second wave of revolutions took place?

5. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?

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