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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Mozart's Magic Flute connected to the politics of Mozart's time, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) It promoted revolution.
(b) It promoted repression of revolution.
(c) It promoted Jacobinism.
(d) It promoted Freemasonry.

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

3. How were the working classes influenced by religion after the French Revolution?
(a) The were less influenced by it than before.
(b) They remained tithed to the church.
(c) They relied on it as another social service.
(d) They found consolation in the church for their hard lives.

4. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the French Revolution made to the arts?
(a) It killed off a generation of older artists.
(b) It saw the development of a publishing industry for newspapers and books.
(c) It inured people to gory descriptions of war.
(d) It inspired artists with an example of people fighting for freedom.

5. What was the status of the Catholic Church after the French Revolution?
(a) It was declining.
(b) It was becoming more powerful.
(c) It was appealing to the peasantry more and more.
(d) It was expanding.

6. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?
(a) More radical than before.
(b) Devoutly religious, as before.
(c) Still quite religious.
(d) Not religious at all.

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

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

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

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

11. What did the land have to be turned into before it could be developed economically, in Hobsbawm's opinion?
(a) A tamed beast.
(b) Farmland again, after years of being battefields.
(c) Feudal domains.
(d) A commodity that could be bought and sold.

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

13. How does Hobsbawm describe Romanticism?
(a) It valued conformity.
(b) It proposed new ways of representing reality.
(c) It was highly aesthetic.
(d) As an 'extremist crowd'.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?

2. How was the European population changing that made it possible for art to flourish during the Age of Revolution?

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

4. How did this social structure change in the years after the Napoleonic Wars?

5. How does Hobsbawm say conditions for the working poor changed in the mid-1800s?

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