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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the working poor typically rebelling against, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) The monarchy.
(b) The middle class as much as the elite.
(c) Workers in other nations.
(d) The aristocracy.

2. How did this social structure change in the years after the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) It merged into the old aristocracy.
(b) It expanded its reach into all aspects of French culture.
(c) It developed into trade unionism.
(d) It developed into radical socialism.

3. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Part-time craftsmen and markets.
(b) Political theory and practice.
(c) Farmers and craftsmen.
(d) Industrial labor and aristocrats.

4. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?
(a) Revolutions should be used as tools for developing nationalism.
(b) Revolutions should be a way of eliminating the aristocrats.
(c) Revolutions should be used to reinforce the ruling class.
(d) Revolutionary movements should be contained.

5. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Iron.
(b) Steel.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did places that had not been conquered by France reform their land use, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

2. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

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

4. What did revolutionaries see as the goal of their revolutions?

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

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