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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 trend was Hobsbawm looking for in revolts and revolutions?
(a) Local traditions.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Indigenosity.

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

3. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
(a) Communal ownership.
(b) Lord and vassal.
(c) Frontiersmen were opening new lands in Europe.
(d) Landlord and tenant-farmer.

4. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?
(a) The monarchy.
(b) The free market.
(c) The radical element.
(d) The bourgeoisie.

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The ancient Greeks.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?

3. What did revolutionaries see as the goal of their revolutions?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who, in Hobsbawm's account, formed the foundation for what Hobsbawm calls "self-conscious' nationalism?

2. What does Hobsbawm say was the paradox of progress in certain countries of Europe?

3. What does Hobsbawm say is the difference between revolts and national movements?

4. What was the importance of railroads, in Hobsbawm's account, in the Industrial Revolution?

5. 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?

6. In Hobsbawm's account, how strong were the major European nations by the end of the Napoleonic Wars?

7. What role did the cotton market play in the Industrial Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

8. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the world was both bigger and smaller in the late 1700s?

9. How does Hobsbawm say the population was distributed in the 1780s?

10. Where does Hobsbawm say the European nations expanded their influence, for lack of war in Europe?

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