The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Test | Final Test - Medium

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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 Test | Final Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possibility did this social structure open to French society?
(a) It became a place where the monarch could appoint friends and supporters.
(b) It became a place where talent could succeed regardless of wealth or birth.
(c) It became a place where new immigrants could attain citizenship.
(d) It became a place where aristocrats could regain their property and standing.

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

3. What does Hobsbawm say had to happen to the land before its economic potential could be unleashed?
(a) It had to be freed from large owners.
(b) The population needed to expand.
(c) The temperature of Europe had to rise one degree.
(d) The scientific understanding needed to evolve that would let farmers work the land more efficiently.

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) Class mobility.
(b) Land speculation.
(c) Migration.
(d) Small business ownership.

5. What caused the middle class ideology to decline, in Hobsbawm's account?
(a) Communism was taking hold.
(b) It was vulgarized by business interests.
(c) Cutthroat capitalist competition.
(d) The advent of monopolies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobsbawm describe Romanticism?

2. How does Hobsbawm describe the traditional system of agriculture?

3. Which author did NOT rise to prominence during the Age of Revolution?

4. In what way did conservative thinkers resist middle class ideology?

5. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was France's economy left behind, in Hobsbawm's account?

2. What does Hobsbawm say labor organizers were promising workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew?

3. Why, in Hobsbawm's account, was Britain the only industrialized nation in 1848?

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

5. What happened in France while the rest of Europe was industrializing?

6. How does Hobsbawm define middle class ideology?

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

8. What role did religion serve, even as Europe was becoming more secular?

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

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

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