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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?
(a) The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
(b) The destruction of the French Revolution and the population explosion.
(c) New trade routes and peace after the war.
(d) The population explosion and the railroad.

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

3. Where did the idea that Hobsbawm says was developing after 1830 first take root?
(a) In the bourgeoisie.
(b) In the destitute.
(c) In the working poor.
(d) In the middle classes.

4. The most industrialized countries saw more and more adherents of what religion?
(a) Folk religion.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Catholicism.

5. Why, according to Hobsbawm, did land reform take place in France?
(a) Because of Napoleon's defeat in Russia.
(b) Because of the French Revolution.
(c) Because of the Industrial Revolution.
(d) Because of the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the international congress among Europe's ruling nations dissolve after a few years?

2. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?

3. What quality distinguished the revolutions that took place in 1848 from earlier revolutions, according to Hobsbawm?

4. How did the people in political power react to middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

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