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

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 abolishing feudalism.
(c) By nationalizing church and state lands.
(d) By founding colonies in the New World.

2. The most industrialized countries saw more and more adherents of what religion?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Folk religion.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

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

4. In what way, in Hobsbawm's account, did the nobility use religion?
(a) As a source of stability and legitimacy.
(b) As an expensive charity to donate to.
(c) As a club to keep the lower classes down.
(d) As a prop to demonstrate their conspicuous leisure.

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?
(a) As the foundation for industrialism.
(b) As a legacy of improvements.
(c) As a hindrance to economic growth.
(d) As a backwards set of superstitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?

2. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

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 new stance toward religion after the French Revolution?

5. What was the consequence of British land reforms in India?

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