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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 rose to prominence financing the wars?
(a) The Barings and Rothschilds.
(b) The Rockefellers.
(c) The Jews.
(d) Swiss.

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.

3. Why did the international congress among Europe's ruling nations dissolve after a few years?
(a) The interests of its main powers diverged.
(b) Its members conspired against each other.
(c) Its members launched an unsuccessful war together.
(d) It was replaced by another alliance.

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

5. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?
(a) "the beginning of the modern age."
(b) "the most important event in world history."
(c) "preparation for some of the greatest changes mankind would know."
(d) "the end of classical Europe."

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?

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

3. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

4. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?

5. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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