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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Career Open to Talent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?
(a) Communist sympathy.
(b) The urge to power.
(c) Altruism.
(d) The profit motive.

2. What trend was Hobsbawm looking for in revolts and revolutions?
(a) Indigenosity.
(b) Local traditions.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Modernism.

3. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Local trade.
(b) Aristocratic political power.
(c) Hand-crafts.
(d) Religious faith.

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) India.
(b) Russia.
(c) Australia.
(d) China.

5. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) Britain and Russia.
(b) Austria and Prussia.
(c) All of Europe and Britain.
(d) Russia, Prussia and Austria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

3. Why did the international congress among Europe's ruling nations dissolve after a few years?

4. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

5. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?

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