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

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

3. Based on these landmarks, what were the dates of the beginning and the peak of middle class ideology?
(a) 1791 and 1812.
(b) 1795 and 1848.
(c) 1776 and 1817.
(d) 1789 and 1830.

4. Who does Hobsbawm say typified the third kind of thinking that arose in the early 1800s?
(a) Rousseau and Hegel.
(b) Coleridge.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Wordsworth and Blake.

5. Which market supplied raw materials for the cotton trade?
(a) Thailand.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Britain's colonies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way, in Hobsbawm's account, did the nobility use religion?

3. What scientific discovery does Hobsbawm cite as a modest but significant discovery?

4. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

5. What profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?

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