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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?
(a) They made the government more efficient.
(b) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.
(c) They weakened the government.
(d) They widened the gap between rich and poor.

2. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
(a) It devastated the continent with non-stop fighting.
(b) It created room for new industries.
(c) It concentrated the refugee populations in cities, where they became workers.
(d) It ruined the means of production and created the possibility of socialism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?

3. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?

4. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

5. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?

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