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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Based on these landmarks, what were the dates of the beginning and the peak of middle class ideology?
(a) 1776 and 1817.
(b) 1789 and 1830.
(c) 1795 and 1848.
(d) 1791 and 1812.

2. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Britain.
(b) France's war with Russia.
(c) France's war with Austria.
(d) France's war with Prussia.

3. What was Chartism?
(a) A movement to send workers to domesticate unexplored territories.
(b) A movement to unify the workers of the world.
(c) A movement to abolish the monarchy in Prussia.
(d) A movement that called for election and parliamentary reform.

4. Where, according to Hobsbawm, did a national movement come from the masses?
(a) Poland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Greece.

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were efficient.
(b) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(c) He says they were unfree.
(d) He says they were united.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?

2. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

3. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?

4. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?

5. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?

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