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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Science and Conclusion: Towards 1848.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Confucianism.
(d) Shinto.
2. Who does Hobsbawm say typified the third kind of thinking that arose in the early 1800s?
(a) Rousseau and Hegel.
(b) Wordsworth and Blake.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Coleridge.
3. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?
(a) France industrialized quickly, as the soldiers returned from the Napoleonic Wars and went to work in factories.
(b) The economy was paralyzed by the veterans returning from the wars to the small plots of land Napoleon had promised.
(c) Economic development was slow for lack of investors willing to put money in French factories.
(d) Land reforms from the French Revolution tied land use to the peasantry, and the economy did not take off.
4. What were the three paths for a member of the working poor during the mid-1800s?
(a) Remain in the place of their birth, emigrate, or start a busines of their own.
(b) Immigrate to America, move to a city, or suffer in poverty.
(c) Suffer in poverty, elevate themselves to the middle class, or rebel.
(d) The working poor did not have options, as a whole.
5. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?
(a) Landlord and tenant-farmer.
(b) Communal ownership.
(c) Frontiersmen were opening new lands in Europe.
(d) Lord and vassal.
Short Answer Questions
1. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
2. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?
3. What changed in other countries, but did not change in France, in Hobsbawm's analysis?
4. What was the one nation Hobsbawm says could have been considered industrialized in 1848?
5. What did France produce as other countries' economies changed?
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