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

2. 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.

3. What does Hobsbawm say revolutionary groups had in common across Europe in 1848?
(a) They saw themselves as the benefactors of the common people.
(b) They were all inspired to eliminate monarchies.
(c) They all wanted to make their revolution a permanent part of society.
(d) They all portrayed themselves as fighting for freedom against tyranny.

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

5. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?
(a) Resistance to monarchy.
(b) Resistance to democracy.
(c) Freedom movements in the Catalan region.
(d) New forms of government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Code of Napoleon?

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

3. What does Hobsbawm say revolts turned against in this period?

4. Where were the French forces superior to the English?

5. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the effect, in Hobsbawm's account, of the American Revolution on the French Revolution?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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