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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?
(a) The urge to power.
(b) Communist sympathy.
(c) The profit motive.
(d) Altruism.

2. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They created a discontented class of people who eventually revolted.
(b) They brought civilization to North Africa for the first time.
(c) They installed local officials as a new aristocracy.
(d) They stripped away the wealth of the North African countries.

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

4. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?
(a) Shinto.
(b) Confucianism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Islam.

5. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) 1792-1815.
(b) 1789-1815.
(c) 1812-1815.
(d) 1791-1812.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

2. How did Hobsbawm characterize the change in the way that people related to the land, and the way land was related to the economy?

3. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?

4. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?

5. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?

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