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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What view of society was beginning to be adopted widely, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) A spiritual view.
(b) A conservative view.
(c) A mechanical view.
(d) A liberal view.

2. What did France produce as other countries' economies changed?
(a) Common goods for its domestic market.
(b) Luxury goods for export.
(c) A full range of products.
(d) Raw materials for export.

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

4. What did the new view hold that was spreading through Europe?
(a) The progress of society through reason and philosophical enlightenment.
(b) The improvability of the system by engineers and scientists.
(c) The value of tradition in ritual and mystery.
(d) The spiritual unification of humanity in a global community.

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

6. What was the new stance toward religion after the French Revolution?
(a) The church had insinuated itself into the government.
(b) People were not hostile, but society was becoming more secular.
(c) The state had seized all church lands, and the church was diminished.
(d) Radicals were openly antagonistic to the church.

7. How were the working classes influenced by religion after the French Revolution?
(a) They relied on it as another social service.
(b) They remained tithed to the church.
(c) They found consolation in the church for their hard lives.
(d) The were less influenced by it than before.

8. 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.

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

10. What was the status of the Catholic Church after the French Revolution?
(a) It was expanding.
(b) It was becoming more powerful.
(c) It was declining.
(d) It was appealing to the peasantry more and more.

11. What was the state of science in the period after the French Revolution?
(a) It was advancing and clashing with the church.
(b) It was developing slowly behind philosophy and literature.
(c) It was still riddled with superstitions and religious stories.
(d) It still held that the world was flat.

12. Why were Jews particularly well-suited to take advantage of opportunities to join the new middle class?
(a) They were established financiers.
(b) They were typically well-versed in science and technology.
(c) They lived in centers of trade.
(d) They were already largely urbanized.

13. Who were the working poor typically rebelling against, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) The aristocracy.
(b) The middle class as much as the elite.
(c) Workers in other nations.
(d) The monarchy.

14. In what respect does Hobsbawm say that Britain was well-situated as industrialism expanded?
(a) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to capitalize on other nations' industrialization.
(b) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to take the role of supreme military leader.
(c) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to open new trade routes with Asia.
(d) Hobsbawm says that Britain was well-situated to adopt the new technologies and grow its economy.

15. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?
(a) They knew how to perform the manual labor that others no longer performed.
(b) They seemed to be freer than the middle class, who had to be ambitious to get ahead.
(c) They seemed to lack the quality that had allowed others to move into the middle class.
(d) They did not need to finance their lives with untrustworthy paper money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Beethoven's Eroica connected to the politics of Beethoven's time, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. What was Chartism?

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

4. What was the political ideology behind the organizers' promises to the working poor?

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

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