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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the new view hold that was spreading through Europe?
2. Who were the working poor typically rebelling against, in Hobsbawm's account?
3. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?
4. What were the three paths for a member of the working poor during the mid-1800s?
5. How were Charles Dickens' novels connected to the politics of Dickens' time, in Hobsbawm's account?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why, in Hobsbawm's account, was Britain the only industrialized nation in 1848?
2. How did those in power react to the spread of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
3. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?
4. Why was France's economy left behind, in Hobsbawm's account?
5. What examples does Hobsbawm cite to demonstrate his point that the arts were responsive to the socioeconomic conditions in Europe in the mid-1800s?
6. What does Hobsbawm say labor organizers were promising workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew?
7. Why were Jews and Protestants in particular successful and socially mobile, in Hobsbawm's account?
8. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?
9. How does Hobsbawm describe the working class' living conditions?
10. What works marked the beginning and the peak, respectively, of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Was the secularization of European culture a benefit or a disadvantage of industrialization? Was it simply a transition, as people found their religion in other places? What functions had religion served that were now served by other, secular developments?
Essay Topic 2
Not everyone was thrilled by the development of a new middle class, a new middle class ideology, and a Romantic or liberal perspective on history, culture, and the arts. Describe the opposition to progress, Romanticism, liberalism, and Communism. Who were the groups, classes or individuals who resisted the revolutions that changed the world in the 19th century?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Communism in the economy and Romanticism in the arts as two responses to industrialization. How are they related? How are they different manifestations of reactions against the same cultural environment?
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