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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. What contrast became very clear as industrialism developed in Europe?
2. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?
3. What fell away as industrialism developed in Europe?
4. What was Chartism?
5. What state were other economies in 1848?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?
2. How, in Hobsbawm's account, did European land reforms fare in other places?
3. Why, in Hobsbawm's account, was Britain the only industrialized nation in 1848?
4. Why does Hobsbawm describe the changing use of the landscape "the most catastrophic phenomenon" of the period?
5. Which artist does Hobsbawm cite as examples of the high standards reached in the arts in the mid-1800s?
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. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?
8. What are the three sources Hobsbawm refers to when he says that artists made the effects of industrialization a common theme?
9. How does Hobsbawm say France in particular created opportunities for a new middle class?
10. What does Hobsbawm say was growing along with and as a result of Protestantism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a detailed review of "The Age of Revolution". What are the book's main themes and preoccupations? What are its methods? How does it achieve its intentions? Where does it fail to?
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 was the role of the Jews in the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution? How did they participate in the transformation of European society? How did they benefit by it? How was their experience different than other groups' experiences?
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