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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. How was Mozart's Magic Flute connected to the politics of Mozart's time, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) It promoted Jacobinism.
(b) It promoted Freemasonry.
(c) It promoted repression of revolution.
(d) It promoted revolution.

2. What product does Hobsbawm say was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Iron.
(b) Wool.
(c) Steel.
(d) Cotton.

3. Where was Chartism an active part of the political landscape?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Prussia.
(d) Austria.

4. What did Hobsbawm say was the new law of businesses in the late 1700s?
(a) Get big or die.
(b) Buy locally, sell globally.
(c) Buy low, sell high.
(d) Create a niche.

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the realm of all important thought at the time?
(a) It was literary.
(b) It was political.
(c) It was secular.
(d) It was religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened that fostered nationalist movements in the Balkans?

2. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?

3. What was the Bastille a symbol of when the French stormed it in 1789?

4. What change does Hobsbawm say took place in the neighborhoods of the working poor?

5. What view of society was beginning to be adopted widely, in Hobsbawm's account?

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