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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. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) He says that fighting was widespread throughout many regions.
(b) He says that almost everyone felt the effects in one way or another.
(c) He says that many were not affected at all.
(d) He says that the wide areas were almost totally devastated. but some were left untouched.

2. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Monarchy.

3. Where did the second wave of revolutions take place?
(a) Turkey and Greece.
(b) Prussia.
(c) Albania and Romania.
(d) Ireland and Poland.

4. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Britain's colonies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

2. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?

3. What was the age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?

4. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?

5. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were the geographical consequences of the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

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

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

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

10. How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the slave trade, in Hobsbawm's account?

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