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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. Which author did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?
2. What were the three paths for a member of the working poor during the mid-1800s?
3. What was the state of science in the period after the French Revolution?
4. What was Chartism?
5. What was a consequence of the emergence of a new class of people in European society?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hobsbawm say religion was changing after the French Revolution?
2. What are the three sources Hobsbawm refers to when he says that artists made the effects of industrialization a common theme?
3. What examples does Hobsbawm cite to demonstrate his point that the arts were responsive to the socioeconomic conditions in Europe in the mid-1800s?
4. What works marked the beginning and the peak, respectively, of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
5. How does Hobsbawm describe France's effect on land reform?
6. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?
7. What had to happen to land use practices, in Hobsbawm's account, for capitalism to take hold in Europe?
8. What does Hobsbawm say was growing along with and as a result of Protestantism?
9. How does Hobsbawm say France in particular created opportunities for a new middle class?
10. Who does Hobsbawm say was most receptive to Romanticism, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hobsbawm describes the importance of nationalism in the development of a middle class that had developed its own characteristic ideology, which was marked by a faith in a universe that progressed either toward spiritual fulfillment (Hegel) or communism (Marx). Both of these conclusions were for the mass, though, and it would not be until Freud that people could see the difficulties of being individuals within a mass or nation.
Write an essay that addresses the importance of nationalism in your life. In what ways are you a national creature? Does your nationalism interfere with or obscure your individuality?
Essay Topic 2
Make an annotated time line with the important trends and events that marked the development of Europe in the Age of Revolution. Make a map that shows these trends and events as well.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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