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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Science and Conclusion: Towards 1848.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Hobsbawm, what characterized conditions in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) Lower and lower population density over time.
(b) High disease.
(c) Clean streets.
(d) Better and more efficient organization over time.

3. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?
(a) More radical than before.
(b) Devoutly religious, as before.
(c) Still quite religious.
(d) Not religious at all.

4. What was the one nation Hobsbawm says could have been considered industrialized in 1848?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Britain.
(d) Russia.

5. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the Industrial Revolution made to the arts?
(a) It appalled artists with the possibilities of a technological future.
(b) It introduced artists to the terrors of large-scale warfare.
(c) It stimulated artists by the plight of the working classes.
(d) It produced more funding for the arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of British land reforms in India?

2. What did the nobility do when France became a Constitutional monarchy?

3. Who invested in the railroads, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. Why does Hobsbawm say that the Industrial Revolution could only have happened in England?

5. The merchant class was situated between what and what, in Hobsbawm's account?

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