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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hobsbawm find in conservative thinking of the period?
(a) A strong tradition, in literature in particular.
(b) Hobsbawm did not find much of value.
(c) The beginnings of fascism.
(d) Myriad alternatives to industrialization.

2. What was the result of improvements in the technology of spinning and weaving?
(a) Increased tax revenue from the cotton trade.
(b) Decreased need for labor.
(c) Increased output.
(d) Decreased farm size.

3. According to Hobsbawm, what characterized conditions in the neighborhoods of the working poor?
(a) Clean streets.
(b) Better and more efficient organization over time.
(c) Lower and lower population density over time.
(d) High disease.

4. What capability was open to the middle class, as a result of the age of revolutions, that was not open before the revolutions?
(a) Land speculation.
(b) Class mobility.
(c) Small business ownership.
(d) Migration.

5. How does Hobsbawm describe the agrarian workers of the world?
(a) He says they were efficient.
(b) He says they were unfree.
(c) He says they were part-owners in the estates.
(d) He says they were united.

Short Answer Questions

1. What landmark event does Hobsbawm use as the beginning of the middle class ideology?

2. What does Hobsbawm say the major European powers agreed on after the French Revolution?

3. What was the state of science in the period after the French Revolution?

4. Where did Russia expand its relationships after the French Revolution?

5. How does Hobsbawm say conditions for the working poor changed in the mid-1800s?

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