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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 age of scientific and political progress in the 1700s called?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) Modernism.
(d) The Romantic period.

2. What trend was Hobsbawm looking for in revolts and revolutions?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Local traditions.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Indigenosity.

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world of 1789 was bigger than today?
(a) Hobsbawm says that people were bigger than today.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the population was bigger than today.
(c) Hobsbawm says that much of the Earth was still unexplored.
(d) Hobsbawm says that distances seemed much bigger than today.

4. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The ancient Greeks.
(d) The French Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?

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

4. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?

5. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?

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