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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the French forces defeated in 1815?

2. What group does Hobsbawm say typified the revolutionary groups that became active in 1848?

3. Who does Hobsbawm say the revolutionary groups saw as the beneficiaries of their third wave of revolutions?

4. Where did the second wave of revolutions take place?

5. Which areas were best connected, according to Hobsbawm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who, in Hobsbawm's account, formed the foundation for what Hobsbawm calls "self-conscious' nationalism?

2. How does Hobsbawm say that the political atmosphere changed after the French Revolution?

3. What does Hobsbawm say was the paradox of progress in certain countries of Europe?

4. What role did the cotton market play in the Industrial Revolution, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. Describe the effect of the Greek revolution on Greece and the region.

6. Why does Hobsbawm say that raw materials like iron and coal did not expand the same way as cotton began to expand in the 1780s?

7. What conditions made Britain ripe for the Industrial Revolution, according to Hobsbawm?

8. Where does Hobsbawm say the European nations expanded their influence, for lack of war in Europe?

9. Why did a period of peace follow the Napoleonic Wars, in Hobsbawm's account?

10. How does Hobsbawm say the population was distributed in the 1780s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

70How does the Age of Revolution look if you discard the superlatives and try to see merely the new, small, day-to-day changes that made life markedly different from one year to the next over a period of 50 to 70 years? Write an extended journal entry or a series of short essays to describe what it must have been like for nineteenth-century Europeans to experience such a long period of consistent change.

Essay Topic 2

Considering the changes that were happening at the time in the early- to mid-1800s, it's no surprise that people were anxious about the future; but Marx saw Communism as the goal and perfection of human society. How had the times created this view in Marx and in European culture? What movements does Hobsbawm discuss which contributed to the development of Communism as an alternative to the capitalist exploitation of the Earth and the workers?

Essay Topic 3

What are the major developments that have shaped the hundred and sixty or so years since 1848? Choose one and describe, in much the way Hobsbawm does, the factors that led to the development, as well as its primary consequences.

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