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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the new stance toward religion after the French Revolution?
(a) The church had insinuated itself into the government.
(b) People were not hostile, but society was becoming more secular.
(c) The state had seized all church lands, and the church was diminished.
(d) Radicals were openly antagonistic to the church.

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

4. What was the Code of Napoleon?
(a) The bureaucratic system instituted in France.
(b) The reform that abolished feudalism.
(c) The criminal law instituted by Napoleon.
(d) The currency policy that financed the Napoleonic wars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did many countries impose this transformation of land use on the people?

2. Why did places that had not been conquered by France reform their land use, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

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

4. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry gain by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?

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

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