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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?
(a) As a hindrance to economic growth.
(b) As a legacy of improvements.
(c) As a backwards set of superstitions.
(d) As the foundation for industrialism.

2. What was NOT a source to which Hobsbawm attributes the development of the arts during the industrialization of Europe?
(a) Futurism.
(b) The middle ages.
(c) Primitive man.
(d) The French Revolution.

3. What was the political ideology behind the organizers' promises to the working poor?
(a) Fourierism.
(b) Utopianism.
(c) Radicalism.
(d) Communism.

4. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1848.

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

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

7. What landmark event does Hobsbawm use as the beginning of the middle class ideology?
(a) The publication of "Jane Eyre".
(b) The publication of 'Wealth of Nations".
(c) The publication of "Bleak House".
(d) The publication of Hobbes' "Leviathan".

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

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

10. What change does Hobsbawm say took place in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) They were transformed and redesigned for high density living.
(b) They were integrated with the industrial centers of production.
(c) They were abandoned to squalor.
(d) They were segregated from the middle class.

11. How did this social structure change in the years after the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) It developed into trade unionism.
(b) It expanded its reach into all aspects of French culture.
(c) It merged into the old aristocracy.
(d) It developed into radical socialism.

12. Which form of rebellion did the working poor NOT engage in?
(a) Organized terrorism.
(b) Demonstrations.
(c) Strikes and riots.
(d) Political campaigns.

13. According to Hobsbawm, what characterized conditions in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) Clean streets.
(b) Better and more efficient organization over time.
(c) Lower and lower population density over time.
(d) High disease.

14. How did Hobsbawm characterize the change in the way that people related to the land, and the way land was related to the economy?
(a) As the most lucrative development of the period.
(b) As the most catastrophic phenomenon of the period.
(c) As the least forgivable development of the period.
(d) As the least recognized phenomenon of the period.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hobsbawm say had to happen to the land before its economic potential could be unleashed?

3. Which musician did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?

4. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?

5. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?

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