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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. In what way does Hobsbawm say that the sympathies of those in power were split in the early 1800s?

2. What change does Hobsbawm say took place in the neighborhoods of the working poor?

3. What landmark event does Hobsbawm see as the peak of the middle class ideology?

4. How was Mozart's Magic Flute connected to the politics of Mozart's time, in Hobsbawm's account?

5. In Hobsbawm's account, what did the peasantry gain by land reforms sweeping the globe in the mid-1800s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hobsbawm say France in particular created opportunities for a new middle class?

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

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

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the class tensions surrounding the new middle class?

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

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

9. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Make an annotated time line with the important trends and events that marked the development of Europe in the Age of Revolution. Make a map that shows these trends and events as well.

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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