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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?

2. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

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

4. Where did Britain expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

5. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Robespierre's influence on the French Revolution.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Make a brief time line of the changes that were taking place in America from 1789 to 1848. How was the shape of the nation changing? How were the politics changing, and the arts and technology?

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed review of "The Age of Revolution". What are the book's main themes and preoccupations? What are its methods? How does it achieve its intentions? Where does it fail to?

Essay Topic 3

Was the secularization of European culture a benefit or a disadvantage of industrialization? Or, was it simply a transition, as people found their religion in other places? What functions had religion served that were now served by other, secular developments?

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