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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) All of Europe and Britain.
(b) Britain and Russia.
(c) Russia, Prussia and Austria.
(d) Austria and Prussia.

2. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?
(a) Decreased farm size.
(b) Decreased need for labor.
(c) Increased output.
(d) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.

3. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Prussia.
(b) France's war with Britain.
(c) France's war with Russia.
(d) France's war with Austria.

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) India.
(b) Australia.
(c) China.
(d) Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

2. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?

3. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

4. Who dominated the Third Estate in the 1780s in France?

5. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?

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