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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. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Morality and ethics.
(b) Religion and philosophy.
(c) Science and commerce.
(d) Arts and music.

2. What cause did Russia and Britain disagree over after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Greece.
(b) The independence of Turkey.
(c) The independence of Poland.
(d) The independence of Finland.

3. What did the French Revolution demonstrate to the rest of Europe?
(a) That power will always reside in the aristocracy's hands.
(b) That people could rise up to fight for their freedom.
(c) That Europe was not ready for democracy yet.
(d) That tyrants could use popular uprisings for their own purposes.

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

5. Which of the revolutions that took place in the first wave of revolutions after the French Revolution was NOT suppressed?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Greece.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Hobsbawm's account, why was 1830 a turning point in the history of Europe?

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

6. Describe the effect of the Greek revolution on Greece and the region.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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