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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ideology: Secular.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the status of the Catholic Church after the French Revolution?
(a) It was appealing to the peasantry more and more.
(b) It was declining.
(c) It was expanding.
(d) It was becoming more powerful.

3. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) Feudal domains.
(b) A tamed beast.
(c) Farmland again, after years of being battefields.
(d) A commodity that could be bought and sold.

4. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(b) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.
(c) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(d) Selling government positions to noblemen.

5. What did Hobsbawm find in conservative thinking of the period?
(a) A strong tradition, in literature in particular.
(b) The beginnings of fascism.
(c) Hobsbawm did not find much of value.
(d) Myriad alternatives to industrialization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the middle class ideology to decline, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. Where does Hobsbawm say the first wave of revolutions took place after the French Revolution?

3. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?

4. What landmark event does Hobsbawm see as the peak of the middle class ideology?

5. What distinguished the new class of workers that emerged in the Age of Revolution?

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