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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 profession emerged in France as a result of Napoleon?
2. What was a consequence of the emergence of a new class of people in European society?
3. Why were Jews particularly well-suited to take advantage of opportunities to join the new middle class?
4. What figure does Hobsbawm say emerged from Romanticism?
5. What distinguished the new class of workers that emerged in the Age of Revolution?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?
2. What does Hobsbawm say was increasing around 1848?
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. How does Hobsbawm describe the working class' living conditions?
5. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?
6. What are the three sources Hobsbawm refers to when he says that artists made the effects of industrialization a common theme?
7. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?
8. What happened in France while the rest of Europe was industrializing?
9. How, in Hobsbawm's account, did European land reforms fare in other places?
10. What had to happen to land use practices, in Hobsbawm's account, for capitalism to take hold in Europe?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How important was nationalism in the revolutions Hobsbawm describes? Was it a cause or an effect of the revolutions? If it was a cause, what were its effects? If it was an effect, what caused it?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Was the secularization of European culture a benefit or a disadvantage of industrialization? 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?
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