The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did many countries impose this transformation of land use on the people?
(a) By seizing the aristocrats' lands for the people.
(b) By nationalizing church and state lands.
(c) By abolishing feudalism.
(d) By founding colonies in the New World.

2. What was the political ideology behind the organizers' promises to the working poor?
(a) Communism.
(b) Fourierism.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Utopianism.

3. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry gain by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?
(a) Money.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Culture.

4. What profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
(a) Lawyers and legal experts.
(b) University professors.
(c) Merchants and money lenders.
(d) A civil service.

5. How was the European population changing that made it possible for art to flourish during the Age of Revolution?
(a) The upper classes could travel to artistic centers to buy art.
(b) People were wealthier.
(c) People were more literate.
(d) The upper classes had more disposable income.

6. What was the one nation Hobsbawm says could have been considered industrialized in 1848?
(a) America.
(b) Russia.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

7. How did this social structure change in the years after the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) It developed into radical socialism.
(b) It expanded its reach into all aspects of French culture.
(c) It developed into trade unionism.
(d) It merged into the old aristocracy.

8. What changed in other countries, but did not change in France, in Hobsbawm's analysis?
(a) Mercantile colonialism did not provide large amounts of revenue.
(b) Inflation did not remain low.
(c) Population did not increase.
(d) France did not begin to idealize its ancient past.

9. What change does Hobsbawm say took place in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) They were abandoned to squalor.
(b) They were segregated from the middle class.
(c) They were transformed and redesigned for high density living.
(d) They were integrated with the industrial centers of production.

10. How did Hobsbawm characterize the change in the way that people related to the land, and the way land was related to the economy?
(a) As the most lucrative development of the period.
(b) As the least recognized phenomenon of the period.
(c) As the least forgivable development of the period.
(d) As the most catastrophic phenomenon of the period.

11. What social structure attended the profession that emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
(a) An oligarchy.
(b) A hierarchical bureaucracy.
(c) A plutocracy.
(d) A new aristocracy.

12. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?
(a) They seemed to lack the quality that had allowed others to move into the middle class.
(b) They knew how to perform the manual labor that others no longer performed.
(c) They did not need to finance their lives with untrustworthy paper money.
(d) They seemed to be freer than the middle class, who had to be ambitious to get ahead.

13. How does Hobsbawm say conditions for the working poor changed in the mid-1800s?
(a) He says that they deteriorated.
(b) He says that they were better regulated by the government.
(c) He says that they became more and more sanitary over time.
(d) He says that they largely improved.

14. What role did Chartists play in politics?
(a) They disrupted the political process.
(b) They agitated for liberal politicians.
(c) They agitated for conservative politicians.
(d) They were elected to local councils.

15. What capability was open to the middle class, as a result of the age of revolutions, that was not open before the revolutions?
(a) Small business ownership.
(b) Land speculation.
(c) Class mobility.
(d) Migration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Hobsbawm, did land reform take place in France?

2. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?

3. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?

4. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. What was increasing at the same time that the railroads were expanding in the 1830s?

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