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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?
(a) France and Spain.
(b) Britain and America.
(c) Austria and Prussia.
(d) Russia.

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

6. What did Hobsbawm find in conservative thinking of the period?
(a) The beginnings of fascism.
(b) Myriad alternatives to industrialization.
(c) A strong tradition, in literature in particular.
(d) Hobsbawm did not find much of value.

7. 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 largely improved.
(c) He says that they deteriorated.
(d) He says that they became more and more sanitary over time.

8. Why, according to Hobsbawm, did land reform take place in France?
(a) Because of the Industrial Revolution.
(b) Because of the French Revolution.
(c) Because of Napoleon's defeat in Russia.
(d) Because of the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars.

9. In what way did conservative thinkers resist middle class ideology?
(a) By studying ancient cultures.
(b) By advocating for international trade.
(c) By appealing to history and tradition.
(d) By inciting revolutions to revert to ancient values.

10. Which musician did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Bach.
(c) Schumann.
(d) Schubert.

11. What was Chartism?
(a) A movement to unify the workers of the world.
(b) A movement to abolish the monarchy in Prussia.
(c) A movement that called for election and parliamentary reform.
(d) A movement to send workers to domesticate unexplored territories.

12. Which author did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Dreiser.
(d) Wordsworth.

13. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?
(a) Shinto.
(b) Confucianism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Hinduism.

14. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry gain by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?
(a) Culture.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Money.
(d) Tradition.

15. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the Industrial Revolution made to the arts?
(a) It produced more funding for the arts.
(b) It appalled artists with the possibilities of a technological future.
(c) It introduced artists to the terrors of large-scale warfare.
(d) It stimulated artists by the plight of the working classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the working classes influenced by religion after the French Revolution?

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

3. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?

4. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?

5. What landmark event does Hobsbawm see as the peak of the middle class ideology?

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