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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Career Open to Talent.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why were Jews particularly well-suited to take advantage of opportunities to join the new middle class?
(a) They were typically well-versed in science and technology.
(b) They were established financiers.
(c) They lived in centers of trade.
(d) They were already largely urbanized.
2. What group does Hobsbawm say typified the revolutionary groups that became active in 1848?
(a) The Carbonari.
(b) The Luddites.
(c) The Jacobins.
(d) The Chartists.
3. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1830.
4. What was the French National Assembly modeled on?
(a) The British House of Commons.
(b) The American House of Representatives.
(c) The British House of Lords.
(d) The American Senate.
5. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
(a) The need for profit.
(b) The need for mercantile power.
(c) The need for monopoly.
(d) The need to dominate trade routes.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?
2. What profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
3. What state were other economies in 1848?
4. Where does Hobsbawm see a culture combining nationalism with the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution?
5. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
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