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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?
(a) It became a place where new immigrants could attain citizenship.
(b) It became a place where talent could succeed regardless of wealth or birth.
(c) It became a place where aristocrats could regain their property and standing.
(d) It became a place where the monarch could appoint friends and supporters.

2. What did working-class organizers promise the workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew wider?
(a) Ownership of the means of production.
(b) Equal representation in legislative and judiciary functions of government.
(c) A permanent change in society that recognized their importance as the source of all wealth.
(d) Power to rule in the aristocrats' place, with all of the aristocrats' luxuries.

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

4. What stage was the political theory in when the organizers were making promises to the workers in the mid-1800s?
(a) It was meeting the political will to begin to strive towards achieving its goals.
(b) It was not well-organized enough to be a threat.
(c) It was establishing coalitions with policemen, soldiers, and union leaders to present demands and back them with force.
(d) It was still a lot of dreaming by people who were powerless to act.

5. 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 expanding into poor neighborhoods.
(c) It was in general decline.
(d) It was becoming merely ceremonial.

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

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

8. What does Hobsbawm say had to happen to the land before its economic potential could be unleashed?
(a) It had to be freed from large owners.
(b) The population needed to expand.
(c) The temperature of Europe had to rise one degree.
(d) The scientific understanding needed to evolve that would let farmers work the land more efficiently.

9. What was increasing at the same time that the railroads were expanding in the 1830s?
(a) Migration.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Religion.

10. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) They stripped away the wealth of the North African countries.
(b) They brought civilization to North Africa for the first time.
(c) They installed local officials as a new aristocracy.
(d) They created a discontented class of people who eventually revolted.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What caused the middle class ideology to decline, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. What was a consequence of the emergence of a new class of people in European society?

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

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