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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 was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?
(a) They widened the gap between rich and poor.
(b) They made the government more efficient.
(c) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.
(d) They weakened the government.

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

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

4. What group does Hobsbawm say typified the revolutionary groups that became active in 1848?
(a) The Carbonari.
(b) The Luddites.
(c) The Chartists.
(d) The Jacobins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which industry saw special improvements and expansion in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

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

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

4. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

5. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Hobsbawm's account, was the Napoleonic War worth the destruction it caused for the economic benefits that followed?

6. How does Hobsbawm say that the political atmosphere changed after the French Revolution?

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

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

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

10. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?

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