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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How was Beethoven's Eroica connected to the politics of Beethoven's time, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) It glorified conquest.
(b) It contained cannons.
(c) It was dedicated to Napoleon.
(d) Beethoven had been deafened by cannon fire before he wrote it.

5. What landmark event does Hobsbawm see as the peak of the middle class ideology?
(a) The publication of "Kubla Khan".
(b) The publication of "Origin of Species".
(c) The publication of Malthus' theories.
(d) The publication of Ricardo's 'Principles of Political Economy'.

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

7. The most industrialized countries saw more and more adherents of what religion?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Folk religion.

8. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Sons following into their fathers' professions.
(c) Apprenticeship.
(d) Secularism.

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

10. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?
(a) They were caught between wanting to industrialize, but also to keep their culture the same.
(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 expensive colonialism abroad, and lack of tax revenues at home.

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

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

13. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the Industrial Revolution made to the arts?
(a) It stimulated artists by the plight of the working classes.
(b) It introduced artists to the terrors of large-scale warfare.
(c) It produced more funding for the arts.
(d) It appalled artists with the possibilities of a technological future.

14. In Hobsbawm's account, what happened in France as industrialism expanded in neighboring countries?
(a) France industrialized quickly, as the soldiers returned from the Napoleonic Wars and went to work in factories.
(b) The economy was paralyzed by the veterans returning from the wars to the small plots of land Napoleon had promised.
(c) Land reforms from the French Revolution tied land use to the peasantry, and the economy did not take off.
(d) Economic development was slow for lack of investors willing to put money in French factories.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What stage was the political theory in when the organizers were making promises to the workers in the mid-1800s?

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

5. Who were the working poor typically rebelling against, in Hobsbawm's account?

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