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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 respect does Hobsbawm say that Britain was well-situated as industrialism expanded?
(a) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to open new trade routes with Asia.
(b) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to take the role of supreme military leader.
(c) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to adopt the new technologies and grow its economy.
(d) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to capitalize on other nations' industrialization.

2. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?
(a) Revolutionaries and radicals.
(b) The nobility.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The working poor.

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. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were united.
(b) He says they were unfree.
(c) He says they were efficient.
(d) He says they were part-owners in the estates.

5. What state were other economies in 1848?
(a) They were developing politically.
(b) They were building the foundations for modern agricultural techniques.
(c) They were still linked to agriculture.
(d) They were refining slave-based production methods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry lose by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?

2. What began to develop as industrialism developed in Europe?

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

4. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?

5. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?

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