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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?
(a) Because the treaties signed after the French Revolution forbade it.
(b) Because the populaces had all been decimated.
(c) Because there was a relative balance of powers.
(d) Because the nations were bound by alliances.

3. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) All strata of society invested in the railroads.
(b) Merchants and investors.
(c) The working classes.
(d) Nobles and aristocrats.

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

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

6. What crucial event does Hobsbawm say took place during the period after the French Revolution?
(a) The discovery of Australia.
(b) The invention of the cotton gin.
(c) The abolition of the slave trade.
(d) The development of paper currency.

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

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 price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.
(c) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.
(d) The country was burdened with too much debt.

9. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?
(a) Becaue only Britain had the commercial strength and social conditions for it.
(b) Because the Industrial Revolution required a cooler climate.
(c) Because the rest of the continent was consumed in war.
(d) Because agriculture thrived in England's moister climate.

10. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?
(a) A permanently poor underclass.
(b) Mechanisms for suppressing revolutions.
(c) A self-identified working class.
(d) State surveillance techniques.

11. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?
(a) "the beginning of the modern age."
(b) "the end of classical Europe."
(c) "the most important event in world history."
(d) "preparation for some of the greatest changes mankind would know."

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

13. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Smaller than today for some people, but larger for others.
(b) Much larger than today.
(c) Much smaller than today.
(d) They were much more spread out.

14. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

2. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

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

4. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

5. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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