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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?
(a) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.
(b) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the population was bigger than today.
(d) Hobsbawm says that much of the Earth was still unexplored.

2. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Part-time craftsmen and markets.
(b) Political theory and practice.
(c) Industrial labor and aristocrats.
(d) Farmers and craftsmen.

3. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
(a) It concentrated the refugee populations in cities, where they became workers.
(b) It ruined the means of production and created the possibility of socialism.
(c) It created room for new industries.
(d) It devastated the continent with non-stop fighting.

4. What quality distinguished the revolutions that took place in 1848 from earlier revolutions, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) They were spontaneous.
(b) They were unsuccessful.
(c) They were non-violent.
(d) They were planned.

5. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?
(a) Decreased need for labor.
(b) Increased output.
(c) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.
(d) Decreased farm size.

6. Who does Hobsbawm say the revolutionary groups saw as the beneficiaries of their third wave of revolutions?
(a) All common people everywhere.
(b) The merchants of the world.
(c) Radicals and revolutionaries everywhere.
(d) Marx and Ricardo.

7. Where did Russia expand its relationships after the French Revolution?
(a) The Caucasus.
(b) Japan.
(c) China.
(d) Greece.

8. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?
(a) The government could not raise an army large enough for any invasions.
(b) The country was burdened with too much debt.
(c) The price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.
(d) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.

9. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Russia.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Britain's colonies.
(d) France.

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

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

12. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?
(a) The American House of Representatives.
(b) The American Senate.
(c) The British House of Commons.
(d) The British House of Lords.

13. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) The Romantic period.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The Enlightenment.

14. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?
(a) With France and Spain.
(b) With Russia and Prussia.
(c) With China and Indonesia.
(d) With its colonies.

15. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.
(b) The limitations imposed by population size.
(c) The limitations imposed by years of war.
(d) The limitations of earlier production techniques.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

2. Where did the second wave of revolutions take place?

3. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

4. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

5. When does Hobsbawm say the second wave of revolutions took place?

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