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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. Where does Hobsbawm say the first wave of revolutions took place after the French Revolution?
(a) In the Americas.
(b) In Eastern Europe.
(c) In the Mediterranean.
(d) In Asia.

2. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) He says that almost everyone felt the effects in one way or another.
(b) He says that the wide areas were almost totally devastated. but some were left untouched.
(c) He says that many were not affected at all.
(d) He says that fighting was widespread throughout many regions.

3. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They brought civilization to North Africa for the first time.
(b) They created a discontented class of people who eventually revolted.
(c) They installed local officials as a new aristocracy.
(d) They stripped away the wealth of the North African countries.

4. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Prussia.
(b) France's war with Austria.
(c) France's war with Russia.
(d) France's war with Britain.

5. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Colonialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say revolts turned against in this period?

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

3. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. What developed in other European countries, but not in France?

5. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

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