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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What motive does Hobsbawm say would have to motivate the new owners of the land, if the land were going to develop economically?
(a) The profit motive.
(b) Communist sympathy.
(c) The urge to power.
(d) Altruism.

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

4. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry lose by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?
(a) Protections.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Dependence on local government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?

3. What developed in other European countries, but not in France?

4. Which class was Romanticism popular among, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. How were Charles Dickens' novels connected to the politics of Dickens' time, in Hobsbawm's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?

2. Who does Hobsbawm say was most receptive to Romanticism, and why?

3. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?

4. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?

5. What opportunities were open because of the Industrial Revolution that were not open before, in Hobsbawm's account?

6. What examples does Hobsbawm cite to demonstrate his point that the arts were responsive to the socioeconomic conditions in Europe in the mid-1800s?

7. How does Hobsbawm describe the working class' living conditions?

8. How does Hobsbawm say religion was changing after the French Revolution?

9. What are the three sources Hobsbawm refers to when he says that artists made the effects of industrialization a common theme?

10. How does Hobsbawm describe France's effect on land reform?

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