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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the French state have a financial crisis in the 1780s?
(a) Because they had overextended themselves in their colonies.
(b) Because they had brought too many workers into the labor force, and devalued their currency.
(c) Because they had lost Canada to the British.
(d) Because they helped the Americans in their Revolutionary War.

2. What did the new view hold that was spreading through Europe?
(a) The spiritual unification of humanity in a global community.
(b) The value of tradition in ritual and mystery.
(c) The improvability of the system by engineers and scientists.
(d) The progress of society through reason and philosophical enlightenment.

3. In what did England lead Europe, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Per capita trade.
(b) Political freedoms.
(c) Raw material production.
(d) Moral philosophy.

4. What came to an end in 1830, according to Hobsbawm?
(a) Local trade.
(b) Aristocratic political power.
(c) Hand-crafts.
(d) Religious faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say is the dual root of nationalism in Europe?

2. What trend was Hobsbawm looking for in revolts and revolutions?

3. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?

4. Where were the French forces defeated in 1814?

5. What relationship had begun to dominate between landowners and farmers in England in the late 1700s?

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