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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say was the greatest influence on political thought in the 19th century?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The ancient Greeks.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The French Revolution.

2. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?
(a) Apprenticeship.
(b) Sons following into their fathers' professions.
(c) Secularism.
(d) Protestantism.

3. What did the French monarch make a practice of in the 1780s?
(a) Persecuting heretics and dissenters.
(b) Ostracizing radicals and innovators.
(c) Placing competent men in bureaucratic positions.
(d) Selling government positions to noblemen.

4. What was the effect of the nobility trying to return to government in France?
(a) They widened the gap between rich and poor.
(b) They made the government more efficient.
(c) They inflamed tensions with the merchant class.
(d) They weakened the government.

5. What role did Chartists play in politics?
(a) They disrupted the political process.
(b) They were elected to local councils.
(c) They agitated for liberal politicians.
(d) They agitated for conservative politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emerged in 1830, according to Hobsbawm's evaluation?

2. Where did Russia expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

3. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?

4. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?

5. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

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