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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?
(a) It concentrated the refugee populations in cities, where they became workers.
(b) It ruined the means of production and created the possibility of socialism.
(c) It created room for new industries.
(d) It devastated the continent with non-stop fighting.

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

4. Why did places that had not been conquered by France reform their land use, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) They didn't want to be left behind as other countries reformed.
(b) They were inspired by France's example.
(c) They saw the benefits of reforming land use.
(d) They were afraid of their peasantry rising up.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?

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

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

5. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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