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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Religious faith.
(b) Hand-crafts.
(c) Aristocratic political power.
(d) Local trade.

2. What area was affected by what Hobsbawm calls the third wave of revolutions?
(a) All of Europe.
(b) Western Europe.
(c) The Mediterranean.
(d) Eastern Europe.

3. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?
(a) The Barings and Rothschilds.
(b) The Rockefellers.
(c) Swiss.
(d) The Jews.

4. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Finland.
(b) The independence of Poland.
(c) The independence of Turkey.
(d) The independence of Greece.

5. Who does Hobsbawm say identified themselves with local traditions?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The uneducated masses.
(d) The aristocrats.

6. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Turkey.
(b) The independence of Greece.
(c) The independence of Finland.
(d) The independence of Poland.

7. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) The seacoasts.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The farm country.
(d) The islands.

8. When does Hobsbawm say the second wave of revolutions took place?
(a) 1830s.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1815.

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

10. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1789-1815.
(b) 1812-1815.
(c) 1792-1815.
(d) 1791-1812.

11. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) Austria and Prussia.
(b) Britain and Russia.
(c) All of Europe and Britain.
(d) Russia, Prussia and Austria.

12. What was the Code of Napoleon?
(a) The criminal law instituted by Napoleon.
(b) The reform that abolished feudalism.
(c) The bureaucratic system instituted in France.
(d) The currency policy that financed the Napoleonic wars.

13. What idea does Hobsbawm say was just being developed after the turning point of 1830?
(a) Separatism.
(b) International community.
(c) "Self-conscious" nationalism.
(d) Unionization.

14. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(b) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(c) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.
(d) Selling government positions to noblemen.

15. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) In warehouses.
(b) In the market.
(c) At home.
(d) In communal workshops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?

2. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?

3. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?

4. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

5. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

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