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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?
(a) Greeks began to flee to the Balkans to get away from the fighting in Greece.
(b) The Greeks attained independence and fixed borders.
(c) The Russians opened trade with the Balkan areas.
(d) The Turks invaded, uniting the Balkan states against them.

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.

3. What does Hobsbawm say was the realm of all important thought at the time?
(a) It was secular.
(b) It was political.
(c) It was literary.
(d) It was religious.

4. When did the Constituent Assembly create a new Constitution that turned France into a Constitutional monarchy?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1789.

5. How did the people in political power react to middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They attempted to repress it, generally.
(b) They embraced it only reluctantly.
(c) They either followed it or ignored it.
(d) They turned it to their advantage politically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Chartism?

2. What does Hobsbawm call the Industrial Revolution?

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

4. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?

5. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

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