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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the monarchy do in response to France's financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) He outsourced the business of governing.
(b) He borrowed from the merchants.
(c) He proposed new taxes.
(d) He called a States General.

2. What was Robespierre's role in the Reign of Terror?
(a) He incited the people to carry it out.
(b) He oversaw it.
(c) He conceived the idea for it.
(d) He was persecuted by it.

3. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Iron.
(b) Steel.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wool.

4. Why didn't France invade any territories after the French Revolution?
(a) The country was struggling with internal dissensions.
(b) The government could not raise an army large enough for any invasions.
(c) The country was burdened with too much debt.
(d) The price of reintroducing Jacobinism was too high.

5. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
(a) New trade routes and peace after the war.
(b) The destruction of the French Revolution and the population explosion.
(c) The population explosion and the railroad.
(d) The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

2. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

3. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?

4. Which class does Hobsbawm say published and circulated native-language publications?

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

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