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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the political ideology behind the organizers' promises to the working poor?
(a) Communism.
(b) Radicalism.
(c) Fourierism.
(d) Utopianism.

2. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?
(a) The urge to power.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Communist sympathy.
(d) The profit motive.

3. What did revolutionaries see as the goal of their revolutions?
(a) Making aristocratic government responsive to commoners' needs.
(b) Making revolution a permanent aspect of society.
(c) Giving government back to the people.
(d) Seizing control over government.

4. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Much larger than today.
(b) Much smaller than today.
(c) They were much more spread out.
(d) Smaller than today for some people, but larger for others.

5. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?
(a) The Turks invaded, uniting the Balkan states against them.
(b) The Russians opened trade with the Balkan areas.
(c) Greeks began to flee to the Balkans to get away from the fighting in Greece.
(d) The Greeks attained independence and fixed borders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?

2. Where was Chartism an active part of the political landscape?

3. What idea does Hobsbawm say was just being developed after the turning point of 1830?

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

5. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

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