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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tool did the upper classes use to discriminate against the working poor?
(a) Military repression.
(b) Anti-union gangs.
(c) Legislation.
(d) Hiring decisions.

3. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?
(a) The Barings and Rothschilds.
(b) The Rockefellers.
(c) Swiss.
(d) The Jews.

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?
(a) Leipzig.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Waterloo.
(d) Berlin.

5. Europe was ruled by Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and which nation?
(a) Russia.
(b) China.
(c) Romania.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was changing in the role religion played in people's lives, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

3. What was the international congress that ruled Europe called?

4. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?

5. The most industrialized countries saw more and more adherents of what religion?

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