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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 landmark event does Hobsbawm use as the beginning of the middle class ideology?

2. What distinguished the new class of workers that emerged in the Age of Revolution?

3. What was the status of the Catholic Church after the French Revolution?

4. How did Hobsbawm characterize the change in the way that people related to the land, and the way land was related to the economy?

5. In what respect does Hobsbawm say that Britain was well-situated as industrialism expanded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hobsbawm say were the three paths a working class person could choose in 1848?

2. What does Hobsbawm say was increasing around 1848?

3. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?

4. What does Hobsbawm say was growing along with and as a result of Protestantism?

5. Who does Hobsbawm say was most receptive to Romanticism, and why?

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

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

8. What had to happen to land use practices, in Hobsbawm's account, for capitalism to take hold in Europe?

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

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

Make a brief time line of the changes that were taking place in America from 1789 to 1848. How was the shape of the nation changing? How were the politics changing, and the arts and technology?

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

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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