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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What developed in other European countries, but not in France?
(a) A market for common goods.
(b) An export market for luxury items.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Militarism.

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

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

4. What role did Chartists play in politics?
(a) They agitated for conservative politicians.
(b) They agitated for liberal politicians.
(c) They were elected to local councils.
(d) They disrupted the political process.

5. What distinguished the new class of workers that emerged in the Age of Revolution?
(a) They went to school for their trade.
(b) They did not use their hands.
(c) They received pay in money, not goods.
(d) They no longer needed patrons.

6. What were the three paths for a member of the working poor during the mid-1800s?
(a) The working poor did not have options, as a whole.
(b) Remain in the place of their birth, emigrate, or start a busines of their own.
(c) Suffer in poverty, elevate themselves to the middle class, or rebel.
(d) Immigrate to America, move to a city, or suffer in poverty.

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

8. How did the people in political power react to middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They either followed it or ignored it.
(b) They embraced it only reluctantly.
(c) They turned it to their advantage politically.
(d) They attempted to repress it, generally.

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

10. Why did places that had not been conquered by France reform their land use, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) They were inspired by France's example.
(b) They didn't want to be left behind as other countries reformed.
(c) They saw the benefits of reforming land use.
(d) They were afraid of their peasantry rising up.

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

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

13. In what way, in Hobsbawm's account, did the nobility use religion?
(a) As an expensive charity to donate to.
(b) As a prop to demonstrate their conspicuous leisure.
(c) As a club to keep the lower classes down.
(d) As a source of stability and legitimacy.

14. What tool did the upper classes use to discriminate against the working poor?
(a) Military repression.
(b) Legislation.
(c) Anti-union gangs.
(d) Hiring decisions.

15. How were Charles Dickens' novels connected to the politics of Dickens' time, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They depicted the history of industrialism.
(b) They depicted the horrible working class conditions.
(c) They depicted the eternal struggles of boys and men.
(d) They depicted the consequences of the Napoleonic Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new view hold that was spreading through Europe?

2. What does Hobsbawm say was the realm of all important thought at the time?

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

4. What was the consequence of British land reforms in India?

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

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