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

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

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

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

5. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
(a) It concentrated the refugee populations in cities, where they became workers.
(b) It created room for new industries.
(c) It devastated the continent with non-stop fighting.
(d) It ruined the means of production and created the possibility of socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

2. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?

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

4. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the beginnings of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1792.

4. 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?

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

6. How did the French Revolution proceed from 1792 to 1794?

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

8. How does Hobsbawm say that the nationalistic ideal spread through Europe?

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

10. What does Hobsbawm say was the first wave of revolutions to follow the French Revolution?

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