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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?
(a) New forms of government.
(b) Resistance to monarchy.
(c) Freedom movements in the Catalan region.
(d) Resistance to democracy.

2. What was changing in the role religion played in people's lives, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) It was in general decline.
(b) It was becoming more radical.
(c) It was becoming merely ceremonial.
(d) It was expanding into poor neighborhoods.

3. How much does Hobsbawm say Europeans were affected by the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) He says that fighting was widespread throughout many regions.
(b) He says that the wide areas were almost totally devastated. but some were left untouched.
(c) He says that almost everyone felt the effects in one way or another.
(d) He says that many were not affected at all.

4. Where were the French forces superior to the English?
(a) In the navy.
(b) In the army.
(c) In the colonies.
(d) In the mountains.

5. 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 least recognized phenomenon of the period.
(b) As the most catastrophic phenomenon of the period.
(c) As the least forgivable development of the period.
(d) As the most lucrative development of the period.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hobsbawm say rose to prominence financing the wars?

2. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

3. Which religions gained adherents after the French Revolution?

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

5. In what way, in Hobsbawm's account, did the nobility use religion?

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