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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 view of society was beginning to be adopted widely, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. How did many countries impose this transformation of land use on the people?

3. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?

4. Where was Chartism an active part of the political landscape?

5. What does Hobsbawm say was the realm of all important thought at the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opportunities were open because of the Industrial Revolution that were not open before, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

3. Why were Jews and Protestants in particular successful and socially mobile, in Hobsbawm's account?

4. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?

5. How did the working poor act out politically, when they did act out, in Hobsbawm's account?

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

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

8. Which artist does Hobsbawm cite as examples of the high standards reached in the arts in the mid-1800s?

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

10. How does Hobsbawm describe France's effect on land reform?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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