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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 figure does Hobsbawm say emerged from Romanticism?
2. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?
3. How does Hobsbawm describe Romanticism?
4. What developed in other European countries, but not in France?
5. What contribution does Hobsbawm say the Industrial Revolution made to the arts?
Short Essay Questions
1. What works marked the beginning and the peak, respectively, of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
2. What examples does Hobsbawm cite to demonstrate his point that the arts were responsive to the socioeconomic conditions in Europe in the mid-1800s?
3. What does Hobsbawm say was the third kind of secular thought that developed during the middle of the nineteenth century?
4. How does Hobsbawm describe the working class' living conditions?
5. How does Hobsbawm describe France's effect on land reform?
6. What does Hobsbawm say labor organizers were promising workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew?
7. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?
8. How does Hobsbawm describe the class tensions surrounding the new middle class?
9. Why was France's economy left behind, in Hobsbawm's account?
10. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?
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? 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 2
Considering the changes that were happening at the time in the early- to mid-1800s, it's no surprise that people were anxious about the future; but Marx saw Communism as the goal and perfection of human society. How had the times created this view in Marx and in European culture? What movements does Hobsbawm discuss which contributed to the development of Communism as an alternative to the capitalist exploitation of the Earth and the workers?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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