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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. Why were the working poor treated with contempt as a new social structure evolved in Europe?
2. In what respect does Hobsbawm say that Britain was well-situated as industrialism expanded?
3. What view of society was beginning to be adopted widely, in Hobsbawm's account?
4. Where was Chartism an active part of the political landscape?
5. What role did Chartists play in politics?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hobsbawm say France in particular created opportunities for a new middle class?
2. Who does Hobsbawm say was most receptive to Romanticism, and why?
3. Why were Jews and Protestants in particular successful and socially mobile, in Hobsbawm's account?
4. What does Hobsbawm say labor organizers were promising workers, as the gap between rich and poor grew?
5. What works marked the beginning and the peak, respectively, of middle class ideology, in Hobsbawm's account?
6. What does Hobsbawm say was increasing around 1848?
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 describe the working class' living conditions?
9. Which religions were expanding as the Catholic Church's importance was declining?
10. How did the working poor act out politically, when they did act out, in Hobsbawm's account?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How important was nationalism in the revolutions Hobsbawm describes? Was it a cause or an effect of the revolutions? If it was a cause, what were its effects? If it was an effect, what caused it?
Essay Topic 2
Hobsbawm describes the importance of nationalism in the development of a middle class that had developed its own characteristic ideology, which was marked by a faith in a universe that progressed either toward spiritual fulfillment (Hegel) or communism (Marx). Both of these conclusions were for the mass, though, and it would not be until Freud that people could see the difficulties of being individuals within a mass or nation.
Write an essay that addresses the importance of nationalism in your life. In what ways are you a national creature? Does your nationalism interfere with or obscure your individuality?
Essay Topic 3
Not everyone was thrilled by the development of a new middle class, a new middle class ideology, and a Romantic or liberal perspective on history, culture, and the arts. Describe the opposition to progress, Romanticism, liberalism, and Communism. Who were the groups, classes or individuals who resisted the revolutions that changed the world in the 19th century?
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