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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 Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Buy low, sell high.
(b) Buy locally, sell globally.
(c) Create a niche.
(d) Get big or die.

2. What capability was open to the middle class, as a result of the age of revolutions, that was not open before the revolutions?
(a) Small business ownership.
(b) Migration.
(c) Class mobility.
(d) Land speculation.

3. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?
(a) As the foundation for industrialism.
(b) As a hindrance to economic growth.
(c) As a legacy of improvements.
(d) As a backwards set of superstitions.

4. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?
(a) Poland.
(b) Greece.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Albania.

5. Where, according to Hobsbawm, did a national movement come from the masses?
(a) Greece.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

2. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?

3. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?

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

5. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?

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