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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?
(a) That power will always reside in the aristocracy's hands.
(b) That Europe was not ready for democracy yet.
(c) That tyrants could use popular uprisings for their own purposes.
(d) That people could rise up to fight for their freedom.

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

4. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?
(a) Revolutions should be a way of eliminating the aristocrats.
(b) Revolutions should be used as tools for developing nationalism.
(c) Revolutionary movements should be contained.
(d) Revolutions should be used to reinforce the ruling class.

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

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

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

8. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?
(a) Greece.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Albania.
(d) Poland.

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

10. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Leipzig.

11. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
(a) The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
(b) New trade routes and peace after the war.
(c) The destruction of the French Revolution and the population explosion.
(d) The population explosion and the railroad.

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

13. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1791.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1793.

14. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?
(a) The nobility.
(b) The working poor.
(c) The middle class.
(d) Revolutionaries and radicals.

15. Which class does Hobsbawm say published and circulated native-language publications?
(a) Ex-patriate presses.
(b) Local presses.
(c) Urban presses.
(d) The universities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Hobsbawm say the revolutionary groups saw as the beneficiaries of their third wave of revolutions?

3. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

4. How did the concept of nationalism spread through Europe?

5. What was production freed from in the 1780s?

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