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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Science and Conclusion: Towards 1848.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Dreiser.
(d) Dickens.

2. Where was Chartism an active part of the political landscape?
(a) Britain.
(b) Prussia.
(c) France.
(d) Austria.

3. 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.

4. What does Hobsbawm say revolts turned against in this period?
(a) Alien rule.
(b) Mercantile colonialism.
(c) Absentee landlords.
(d) Aristocratic rule.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm say conditions for the working poor changed in the mid-1800s?

2. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?

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

4. Where does Hobsbawm say the first wave of revolutions took place after the French Revolution?

5. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?

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