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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 began to develop as industrialism developed in Europe?
(a) A gap between developed and un-developed nations.
(b) A trade war over tariffs.
(c) An arms race between nations.
(d) Lower prices as producers competed for buyers.

2. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?
(a) That tyrants could use popular uprisings for their own purposes.
(b) That power will always reside in the aristocracy's hands.
(c) That people could rise up to fight for their freedom.
(d) That Europe was not ready for democracy yet.

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

4. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?
(a) They did not need to finance their lives with untrustworthy paper money.
(b) They knew how to perform the manual labor that others no longer performed.
(c) They seemed to be freer than the middle class, who had to be ambitious to get ahead.
(d) They seemed to lack the quality that had allowed others to move into the middle class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did France produce as other countries' economies changed?

2. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

3. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?

4. What profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?

5. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?

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