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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What landmark event does Hobsbawm use as the beginning of the middle class ideology?
(a) The publication of Hobbes' "Leviathan".
(b) The publication of 'Wealth of Nations".
(c) The publication of "Jane Eyre".
(d) The publication of "Bleak House".

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?
(a) They were caught between wanting to industrialize, but also to keep their culture the same.
(b) They were torn between exhaustion with warfare, and the need to expand their territory.
(c) They were caught between expensive colonialism abroad, and lack of tax revenues at home.
(d) Those in power were torn between ideological affection for democracy, but faith in the elite as rulers.

3. Who does Hobsbawm say identified themselves with local traditions?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The uneducated masses.
(d) The aristocrats.

4. Which nation ruled most of Asia in the late 1700s?
(a) China.
(b) India.
(c) Russia.
(d) Australia.

5. What cause did Russian and Britain support together after the French Revolution?
(a) The independence of Finland.
(b) The independence of Turkey.
(c) The independence of Greece.
(d) The independence of Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new view hold that was spreading through Europe?

2. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?

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

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