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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 Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?
(a) The economy was paralyzed by the veterans returning from the wars to the small plots of land Napoleon had promised.
(b) Land reforms from the French Revolution tied land use to the peasantry, and the economy did not take off.
(c) France industrialized quickly, as the soldiers returned from the Napoleonic Wars and went to work in factories.
(d) Economic development was slow for lack of investors willing to put money in French factories.

2. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
(a) Landlord and tenant-farmer.
(b) Communal ownership.
(c) Frontiersmen were opening new lands in Europe.
(d) Lord and vassal.

3. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?
(a) A self-identified working class.
(b) State surveillance techniques.
(c) Mechanisms for suppressing revolutions.
(d) A permanently poor underclass.

4. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?
(a) It became a place where aristocrats could regain their property and standing.
(b) It became a place where talent could succeed regardless of wealth or birth.
(c) It became a place where the monarch could appoint friends and supporters.
(d) It became a place where new immigrants could attain citizenship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?

2. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

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

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

5. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?

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