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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?
(a) They were caught between expensive colonialism abroad, and lack of tax revenues at home.
(b) They were torn between exhaustion with warfare, and the need to expand their territory.
(c) Those in power were torn between ideological affection for democracy, but faith in the elite as rulers.
(d) They were caught between wanting to industrialize, but also to keep their culture the same.

2. What social structure attended the profession that emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
(a) A new aristocracy.
(b) An oligarchy.
(c) A plutocracy.
(d) A hierarchical bureaucracy.

3. What changed in other countries, but did not change in France, in Hobsbawm's analysis?
(a) Mercantile colonialism did not provide large amounts of revenue.
(b) Population did not increase.
(c) France did not begin to idealize its ancient past.
(d) Inflation did not remain low.

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

5. What was the consequence of British land reforms in India?
(a) Decreased agricultural production.
(b) Guerilla warfare against the British.
(c) Economic failure.
(d) Unprecedented efficiency.

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

7. What began to emerge as production and industry grew in the early 1800s?
(a) Religious persecution.
(b) Suburbs.
(c) Industrial centers.
(d) An international slave trade.

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

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

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

11. What profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
(a) Merchants and money lenders.
(b) University professors.
(c) A civil service.
(d) Lawyers and legal experts.

12. What capability was open to the middle class, as a result of the age of revolutions, that was not open before the revolutions?
(a) Land speculation.
(b) Migration.
(c) Small business ownership.
(d) Class mobility.

13. 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 stimulated artists by the plight of the working classes.
(d) It introduced artists to the terrors of large-scale warfare.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?

2. What figure does Hobsbawm say emerged from Romanticism?

3. Based on these landmarks, what were the dates of the beginning and the peak of middle class ideology?

4. In what respect does Hobsbawm say that Britain was well-situated as industrialism expanded?

5. What contrast became very clear as industrialism developed in Europe?

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