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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. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?
(a) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.
(b) Hobsbawm says that much of the Earth was still unexplored.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the population was bigger than today.
(d) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.

2. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Greece.
(b) The independence of Finland.
(c) The independence of Turkey.
(d) The independence of Poland.

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

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

5. How did this social structure change in the years after the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) It developed into trade unionism.
(b) It developed into radical socialism.
(c) It expanded its reach into all aspects of French culture.
(d) It merged into the old aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hobsbawm say the revolutionary groups saw as the beneficiaries of their third wave of revolutions?

2. How did many countries impose this transformation of land use on the people?

3. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

4. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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

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