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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 role did Chartists play in politics?

2. Which form of rebellion did the working poor NOT engage in?

3. Which religion was expanding from Turkey through Africa and to the east?

4. What stage was the political theory in when the organizers were making promises to the workers in the mid-1800s?

5. What changed in other countries, but did not change in France, in Hobsbawm's analysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hobsbawm describe the changing use of the landscape "the most catastrophic phenomenon" of the period?

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

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

4. Why was France's economy left behind, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the working class' living conditions?

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 growing along with and as a result of Protestantism?

8. What are the three sources Hobsbawm refers to when he says that artists made the effects of industrialization a common theme?

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

10. What happened in France while the rest of Europe was industrializing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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