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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 does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were efficient.
(b) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(c) He says they were unfree.
(d) He says they were united.

2. In what way does Hobsbawm say the world was smaller in 1789?
(a) Hobsbawm says that the population was smaller.
(b) Hobsbawm says that the Earth was smaller.
(c) Hobsbawm says that the families were smaller.
(d) Hobsbawm says that the cities were smaller.

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?
(a) As propaganda to justify xenophobia.
(b) As a prop to secure the middle class.
(c) As nostalgia for an earlier golden age.
(d) As propaganda to build nationalism.

4. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) Feudal domains.
(b) Farmland again, after years of being battefields.
(c) A commodity that could be bought and sold.
(d) A tamed beast.

5. Which class was Romanticism popular among, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) The bureaucracy.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The aristocracy.
(d) The working poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What began to emerge as production and industry grew in the early 1800s?

2. Which nation led the others in industrialization?

3. What did Hobsbawm find in conservative thinking of the period?

4. Why didn't disagreements between nations reach the level of international war?

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

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