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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 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 most lucrative development of the period.
(d) As the least forgivable development of the period.

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?
(a) As propaganda to build nationalism.
(b) As a prop to secure the middle class.
(c) As nostalgia for an earlier golden age.
(d) As propaganda to justify xenophobia.

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

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

5. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?
(a) France and Spain.
(b) Austria and Prussia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Britain and America.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

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

5. What was the new stance toward religion after the French Revolution?

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