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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. Why were Jews particularly well-suited to take advantage of opportunities to join the new middle class?
2. When, in Hobsbawm's opinion, did the rate of change begin to increase quickly?
3. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?
4. In what way did conservative thinkers resist middle class ideology?
5. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hobsbawm describe the class tensions surrounding the new middle class?
2. What examples does Hobsbawm cite to demonstrate his point that the arts were responsive to the socioeconomic conditions in Europe in the mid-1800s?
3. What had to happen to land use practices, in Hobsbawm's account, for capitalism to take hold in Europe?
4. Which artist does Hobsbawm cite as examples of the high standards reached in the arts in the mid-1800s?
5. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?
6. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?
7. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?
8. Why, in Hobsbawm's account, was Britain the only industrialized nation in 1848?
9. How did those in power react to the spread of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
10. Why was France's economy left behind, in Hobsbawm's account?
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
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 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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