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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(b) He says they were efficient.
(c) He says they were united.
(d) He says they were unfree.

2. What change does Hobsbawm say took place in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) They were segregated from the middle class.
(b) They were transformed and redesigned for high density living.
(c) They were abandoned to squalor.
(d) They were integrated with the industrial centers of production.

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

4. What is the paradox in France's failure to develop its industries?
(a) The aristocracy lost the land, but retained the right to what the land produced.
(b) The peasants had more autonomy as a result of land reforms, but they were not well positioned to capitalize on their land.
(c) The peasants gained more political power, but with so many voices, the government was paralyzed.
(d) The workers became more efficient, but the cost of living skyrocketed.

5. Where were spinning and weaving performed prior to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) In the market.
(b) In communal workshops.
(c) In warehouses.
(d) At home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguished the new class of workers that emerged in the Age of Revolution?

2. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?

3. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?

4. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?

5. What changed in other countries, but did not change in France, in Hobsbawm's analysis?

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