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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pressure drove the mechanization of production in the late 1700s?
(a) The need for mercantile power.
(b) The need to dominate trade routes.
(c) The need for profit.
(d) The need for monopoly.

2. What was a consequence of the emergence of a new class of people in European society?
(a) Nostalgia for lost cultural heritage.
(b) Stricter government surveillance.
(c) Religious freedom.
(d) Libertinage.

3. How were the working classes influenced by religion after the French Revolution?
(a) They remained tithed to the church.
(b) The were less influenced by it than before.
(c) They found consolation in the church for their hard lives.
(d) They relied on it as another social service.

4. What set the stage for the French Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) France's war with Britain.
(b) France's war with Austria.
(c) France's war with Prussia.
(d) France's war with Russia.

5. What was production freed from in the 1780s?
(a) The limitations of earlier production techniques.
(b) The limitations imposed by limited raw materials.
(c) The limitations imposed by years of war.
(d) The limitations imposed by population size.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hobsbawm say identified themselves with local traditions?

2. Europe was ruled by Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and which nation?

3. Where did the idea that Hobsbawm says was developing after 1830 first take root?

4. What contrast became very clear as industrialism developed in Europe?

5. What was increasing at the same time that the railroads were expanding in the 1830s?

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