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

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

3. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?

4. What did Hobsbawm find in conservative thinking of the period?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did those in power react to the spread of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. Why were Jews and Protestants in particular successful and socially mobile, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

4. What works marked the beginning and the peak, respectively, of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. What does Hobsbawm say was increasing around 1848?

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

7. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?

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

9. How does Hobsbawm describe the class tensions surrounding the new middle class?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Communism in the economy and Romanticism in the arts as two responses to industrialization. How are they related? How are they different manifestations of reactions against the same cultural environment?

Essay Topic 2

Was the secularization of European culture a benefit or a disadvantage of industrialization? Or, was it simply a transition, as people found their religion in other places? What functions had religion served that were now served by other, secular developments?

Essay Topic 3

Revolutions took place for years after the French Revolution, some successful, some not. How would you characterize the legacy of the French Revolution in these other revolutions? Were these revolutions independent occurrences? Were they inspired by or in any way caused by the French Revolution? Or, were they merely reactions against the same cultural developments that had happened in France?

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