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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 does Hobsbawm say revolutionary groups had in common across Europe in 1848?
(a) They all portrayed themselves as fighting for freedom against tyranny.
(b) They were all inspired to eliminate monarchies.
(c) They all wanted to make their revolution a permanent part of society.
(d) They saw themselves as the benefactors of the common people.

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.

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

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

5. What social structure attended the profession that emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
(a) A new aristocracy.
(b) A hierarchical bureaucracy.
(c) An oligarchy.
(d) A plutocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?

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

3. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

4. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?

5. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

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