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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 did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He proposed new taxes.
(b) He called a States General.
(c) He borrowed from the merchants.
(d) He outsourced the business of governing.

2. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Romantic period.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The Enlightenment.

3. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) The working classes.
(b) Merchants and investors.
(c) All strata of society invested in the railroads.
(d) Nobles and aristocrats.

4. Why did places that had not been conquered by France reform their land use, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) They saw the benefits of reforming land use.
(b) They didn't want to be left behind as other countries reformed.
(c) They were afraid of their peasantry rising up.
(d) They were inspired by France's example.

5. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?
(a) Because the rest of the continent was consumed in war.
(b) Because the Industrial Revolution required a cooler climate.
(c) Becaue only Britain had the commercial strength and social conditions for it.
(d) Because agriculture thrived in England's moister climate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?

2. Why were Jews particularly well-suited to take advantage of opportunities to join the new middle class?

3. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?

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

5. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?

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