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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ideology: Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. France was opposed by which of these in the Napoleonic Wars?
(a) Austria and Prussia.
(b) Britain and Russia.
(c) Russia, Prussia and Austria.
(d) All of Europe and Britain.

2. What was abolished in the wake of Napoleon's victories?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Feudalism.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Colonialism.

3. How were the working classes influenced by religion after the French Revolution?
(a) The were less influenced by it than before.
(b) They relied on it as another social service.
(c) They remained tithed to the church.
(d) They found consolation in the church for their hard lives.

4. In what way does Hobsbawm say that religion was still useful?
(a) As propaganda to justify xenophobia.
(b) As propaganda to build nationalism.
(c) As nostalgia for an earlier golden age.
(d) As a prop to secure the middle class.

5. Where were Protestant sects at the head of religious revivals?
(a) Britain and America.
(b) Austria and Prussia.
(c) Russia.
(d) France and Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of French land reforms in North Africa, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. What, in Hobsbawm's view, was the economic result of the French Revolution?

3. How religious does Hobsbawm say the working classes were, by modern standards?

4. What was the new stance toward religion after the French Revolution?

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

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