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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 call the Industrial Revolution?
(a) "the end of classical Europe."
(b) "preparation for some of the greatest changes mankind would know."
(c) "the most important event in world history."
(d) "the beginning of the modern age."

2. What were the three paths for a member of the working poor during the mid-1800s?
(a) Suffer in poverty, elevate themselves to the middle class, or rebel.
(b) Remain in the place of their birth, emigrate, or start a busines of their own.
(c) The working poor did not have options, as a whole.
(d) Immigrate to America, move to a city, or suffer in poverty.

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

4. What did the French Revolution create in Spain?
(a) Resistance to democracy.
(b) Resistance to monarchy.
(c) Freedom movements in the Catalan region.
(d) New forms of government.

5. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1832.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what fields were cultural developments being made fastest in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

2. What were the dates of the Napoleonic Wars?

3. How large were the circles within which people moved in the late 1700s, according to Hobsbawm?

4. What stage was the political theory in when the organizers were making promises to the workers in the mid-1800s?

5. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry gain by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?

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