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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Austria.
(b) France's war with Britain.
(c) France's war with Prussia.
(d) France's war with Russia.

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

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) India.
(b) Russia.
(c) Australia.
(d) China.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

2. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?

3. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?

4. Where, according to Hobsbawm, did a national movement come from the masses?

5. Where did the idea that Hobsbawm says was developing after 1830 first take root?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say were the monarchies' relationships with land use and the economy in 1780?

2. Why did a period of peace follow the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?

3. What does Hobsbawm say was the third wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

4. What were the geographical consequences of the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the slave trade, in Hobsbawm's account?

6. Describe Robespierre's influence on the French Revolution.

7. Describe the final defeat of the French forces at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

8. In Hobsbawm's account, why was 1830 a turning point in the history of Europe?

9. What does Hobsbawm say was the second wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

10. Why does Hobsbawm say that raw materials like iron and coal did not expand the same way as cotton began to expand in the 1780s?

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