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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 began to emerge as production and industry grew in the early 1800s?
(a) Religious persecution.
(b) Suburbs.
(c) Industrial centers.
(d) An international slave trade.

2. How does Hobsbawm say conditions for the working poor changed in the mid-1800s?
(a) He says that they were better regulated by the government.
(b) He says that they became more and more sanitary over time.
(c) He says that they largely improved.
(d) He says that they deteriorated.

3. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry lose by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Dependence on local government.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Protections.

4. What did revolutionaries see as the goal of their revolutions?
(a) Making aristocratic government responsive to commoners' needs.
(b) Seizing control over government.
(c) Making revolution a permanent aspect of society.
(d) Giving government back to the people.

5. What was changing in the role religion played in people's lives, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) It was becoming more radical.
(b) It was in general decline.
(c) It was expanding into poor neighborhoods.
(d) It was becoming merely ceremonial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one nation Hobsbawm says could have been considered industrialized in 1848?

2. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the Industrial Revolution made to the arts?

3. What quality distinguished the revolutions that took place in 1848 from earlier revolutions, according to Hobsbawm?

4. How does Hobsbawm describe Romanticism?

5. Where does Hobsbawm say the first wave of revolutions took place after the French Revolution?

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