HIST 9 UNIT 2-3

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UNIT 2

1. The Revolution of 1830 in France was led by:
(a) workers, artisans, students and writers
(b) middle-class Jacobins
(c) the nobility and the army
(d) students
Answer is (a)

2. The Troppau Memorandum (1820) was a:
(a) territorial treaty signed by Prussia and Russia
(b) treaty that partitioned Poland among the great powers
(c) pledge by Russia to help Italy get rid of the Carbonari
(d) pact between Austria, Russia and Prussia to aid one another to suppress one
another
Answer is (d)

3. Which political group was not presented in the provisional government following the
abdication of Louis Philippe in 1848?
(a) liberals
(b) socialists
(c) anarchists
(d) republicans
Answer is (a)

4. In general, the significance of the Greek war was that it:
(a) helped Europe redefine its identity
(b) abolished Ottoman rule in the Balkan
(c) preserved an Ottoman foothold in Southeastern Europe
(d) brought Serbia and Greece into a mutual alliance
Answer is (a)

5. Orientalism refers to:
(a) early nineteenth-century artistic and cultural developments in the Ottoman Empire
(b) the heightened European interest in the east specifically Egypt
(c) cultural nationalism in China and Japan
(d) None of the above
Answer is (b)

6. Napoleon was defeated in the:
(a) Crimean War
(b) Battle of Waterloo
(c) Battle of Plassey
(d) Seven Weeks’ War
Answer is (b)

7. When was Napoleon defeated?
(a) June 18, 1815
(b) July 18, 1815
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(c) January 20, 1820
(d) None of the above
Answer is (a)

8. After his defeat Napoleon was sent for exile on the rocky island of St. Helena in the:
(a) South Pacific
(b) Indian Ocean
(c) South Atlantic
(d) South China Sea
Answer is (d)

9. Which country emerged as the most powerful continental state after the fall of
Napoleon?
(a) Russia
(b) Prussia
(c) Britain
(d) Italy
Answer is (a)

10. As a result of the Congress of Vienna, Poland:
(a) was left as it was in 1795
(b) became an independent nation
(c) joined the quadruple alliance with Britain, Austria and Prussia
(d) became a nominally independent kingdom ruled by Tsar Alexander
Answer is (d)

11. The peace treaties crafted in Vienna in 1815 prevented a major European war until:
(a) 1830
(b) 1848
(c) 1870
(d) 1914
Answer is (d)

12. The guiding principle /s of the Congress of Vienna was:
(a) Balance of power
(b) Principle of Legitimacy
(c) both (a) & (b)
(d) None of the above
Answer is (c)

13. Mostly early nineteenth-century liberals advocated:
(a) Direct representation from those who owned property
(b) Universal manhood suffrage
(c) State intervention in the economy
(d) The enfranchisement of all slaves
Answer is (a)

14. Which country was not a member of the Holy Alliance?
(a) Belgium
(b) Britain
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(c) Russia
(d) Prussia
Answer is (a)

15. The major political ideologies of modern times are:
(a) Romanticism, classicism and radicalism
(b) Conservatism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism
(c) Marxism, liberalism and nationalism
(d) All of the above
Answer is (b)

16. Who among the following was regarded as the father of modern socialism?
(a) Jeremy Bentham
(b) Rousseau
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Montesquieu
Answer is (c)

17. The architect of peace and commanding figure at the Congress of Vienna was:
(a) Tsar Alexander I
(b) Klemens von Matternich
(c) Alexis de Tocqueville
(d) Sir Robert Peel
Answer is (b)

18. German unification was completed following:
(a) the Seven Weeks’ War
(b) the Franco-Prussian War
(c) the deliberations of the Frankfurt Assembly
(d) the Danish War
Answer is (b)

19. Which of the following did the Second Reform Bill of 1867 not accomplish?
(a) doubled the franchise
(b) enfranchised skilled workers in the urban areas
(c) enfranchised workers who owned property and paid poor rates in excess of 10
pounds per year
(d) the redistribution of seats favouring the north over the south
Answer is (c)

20. If any word described Otto von Bismarck, that word was:
(a) nationalist
(b) liberal
(c) Prussian
(d) Conservative
Answer is (c)

21. As a result of the Crimean War:
(a) Moldavia and Walachia were united as Romania
(b) Austria and Russia were strengthened
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(c) Russian influence in the Balkans was weakened
(d) Both a and c
Answer is (d)

22. Cavour prepared for the first conflict between Italy and Austria by diplomatic
agreements with:
(a) France
(b) Russia
(c) Britain
(d) Prussia
Answer is (a)

23. An Italian organization named for the charcoal the obscured the faces of its members,
an underground expression of opposition to the restoration done by the Congress of
Vienna was:
(a) Carbonari
(b) Coke
(c) Coaler
(d) none of the above
Answer is (a)

24. The emancipation of the Russian Serfs in 1861:
(a) produced changes in the lives of the peasantry
(b) led to the decline of village commune
(c) did not require compensation to be paid to landowners for property they lost
(d) granted legal rights to 22 million serfs
Answer is (d)

25. Which ethnic language and group did not play a role in the Austrian Empire?
(a) Czech
(b) Magyar
(c) French
(d) Italian
Answer is (c)

26. The German Confederation:
(a) did not include Austria and Prussia
(b) included non-German territories in Poland and Hungary
(c) was a loose organization of thirty-nine states
(d) had real executive power
Answer is (c)

27. Following the Napoleonic Wars, how did Prussia reform the state:
(a) military officers were promoted on the basis alone
(b) the royal cadet at Berlin was modernized
(c) the middle classes were encouraged to take an active role in the civil service
(d) All of the above
Answer is (d)

28. Who followed the policy of Blood and Iron for national unification?
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(a) Otto von Bismarck
(b) Garibaldi
(c) Matternich
(d) Napoleon
Answer is (a)

29. According to the principles behind the Dual Monarchy:
(a) Francis Joseph served as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
(b) Austria – Hungary would have a common system of taxation and a common army
(c) Internal and constitutional issues were separated
(d) All of the above
Answer is (d)

30. Which one was not included in the Balkan region?
(a) Croatia
(b) Bosnia Harzegovina
(c) Serbia
(d) Spain
Answer is (d)

31. Rio de la Plata / Argentina declared its independence from the Spanish imperial
control in:
(a) 1816
(b) 1820
(c) 1830
(d) 1848
Answer is (a)

32. When was the famous Monroe Doctrine issued?
(a) 1820
(b) 1823
(c) 1830
(d) none of the above
Answer is (b)

33. ‘The Wealth of Nations’ (1776) is authored by?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Jeremy Bentham
(d) Martin Luther
Answer is (b)

34. Who among the following argued that the economy should be based on a ‘system of
natural liberty’?
(a) Adam Smith
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) James Munroe
Answer is (a)

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35. The term nation comes from the Latin verb:
(a) nasci
(b) natio
(c) natic
(d) none of the above
Answer is (a)

36. Which of the following was the most significant cultural movement in the early
nineteenth century?
(a) Classicism
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Romanticism
(d) none of the above
Answer is (c)

37. Romanticism developed in the early nineteenth century as a reaction against:
(a) Enlightenment
(b) Scientific Revolution
(c) Classicism
(d) Industrial Revolution
Answer is (a)

38. Which of the following was a nineteenth century system of thought and a response in
large measure to the visible problems ushered in by industrialization?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Liberalism
(c) Socialism
(d) Federalism
Answer is (c)

39. Zollverein was a:
(a) Diplomatic Constitution
(b) Custom Union
(c) Administrative Union
(d) Trade Union
Answer is (b)

40. Zollverein / custom unions was:
(a) a protection policy followed by Japan
(b) establishment of free trade among the German states advocated by Prussia
(c) a good example of industrial advancement in Britain
(d) none of the above
Answer is (b)

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Fill in the blanks

1. The Congress of Vienna restored the French Bourbon monarchy with the coronation
of King ________________, the brother of Louis XVI.
Answer: Louis XVIII

2. The most serious of Napoleon’s mistake was trying to conquer______________.
Answer: Russia

3. After the defeat of Napoleon, _____________ dynasty was restored in France.
Answer: Bourbon

4. __________________, the Duke of Austria hosted the Congress of Vienna.
Answer: Metternich

5. The principle of ____________ involved a basic policy of preventing any one state
from rising to dominance over any other.
Answer: balance of power

6. Mazzini began his career as a member of the _____________________.
Answer: Carbonari

7. __________________ was an underground society in Italy which pledged to resist
Austrian control and establish a constitutional rule.
Answer: Carbonari

8. The ____________________ raised hopes of Italian nationalists in restoring Italian
resurgence that would restore the nation’s prestige during the Renaissance.
Answer: Revolution of 1848

9. Garibaldi envisioned a republican Italy built from below by_________________.
Answer: popular uprising

10. _____________ formed the Red Shirts for unification of his country.
Answer: Garibaldi

11. In the unification of Italy, Cavour’s plan depended on ________________.
Answer: diplomacy

12. In _______________, Rome became the capital of the united Italian kingdom.
Answer: July 1871

13. ____________ was the first in Latin America to declare independence from European
control.
Answer: Argentina

14. In the Seven Weeks’ War _______________ gained victory over Austria.
Answer: Prussia
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15. The first step in the completion of German unity was the ________________ War of
1870-71.
Answer: Franco- Prussian

16. The ______________ was a period of widespread violence launched by the
Committee of Public Safety during which as many as 30,000 citizens were executed.
Answer: Reign of Terror

17. The Communist Manifesto is a book written by ____________________.
Answer: Karl Marx

18. The most serious source of nationalist tension in Europe, after 1871, was an area
called _________________.
Answer: Balkans

19. Romanticism developed first in England and _____________ as a reaction against the
Enlightenment.
Answer: Germany

20. In the history of France, the years 1846 and 1847 were probably the worst of the
entire century in terms of want and human suffering, and the decade has earned the
name the __________________.
Answer: Hungry Forties

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UNIT III

1. During the Boer War the British first insinuated:
(a) firing squads
(b) concentration camps
(c) barbed wire
(d) None of the above
Answer is (b)

2. In general late nineteenth-century imperialism:
(a) involved complete independent entrepreneurial activity by merchant and traders
(b) was built entirely on trade in opium
(c) gave rise new patterns of settlement and social discipline
(d) was very little different from the imperialism of the past
Answer is (c)

3. Why did the Europeans control such a small portion in Africa in the 1800s?
(a) Africa had no natural resources that the Europeans needed
(b) Europeans did not need new markets
(c) Europeans were focused on building empires through acquisition of other
European territories
(d) Africa had powerful armies, rivers were hard to navigate, and Europeans were
susceptible to disease
Answer is (d)

4. The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was ferociously repressed by the forces of:
(a) the United States
(b) Britain, France and Italy
(c) Japan, Russia and Germany
(d) All of the above
Answer is (d)

5. The building of the Suez Canal resulted from the economic and political involvement
in Egypt of:
(a) France and Italy
(b) Russia and France
(c) Britain and France
(d) Britain
Answer is (c)

6. In 1905, the Russian navy was defeated by:
(a) Germany
(b) France
(c) Japan
(d) Britain
Answer is (c)

7. After the French made Algeria a department:
(a) all French settlers were given full rights to citizenship
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(b) the suffrage was given to all male residents
(c) and settlers began to civilize indigenous peoples
(d) none of the above
The answer is (a)

8. One of the richest opium-growing areas in the world located in
(a) Eastern China
(b) Sumatra
(c) Japan
(d) North East India
Answer is (d)

9. In 1900 there were only three independent African nations. Two of these were
Abyssinia and Morocco. Which was the third?
(a) Liberia
(b) Libya
(c) Union of South Africa
(d) Egypt
Answer is (a)

10. What was NOT a major motivating factor for the European powers in their scramble
for Africa?
(a) To gain prestige
(b) To gain economic advantage
(c) To bring civilization and Christianity to Africa
(d) To gain strategic advantage
Answer is (c)

11. The “white man’s burden” was notorious concept popularized by:
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Karl Pearson
(c) Cecil Rhodes
(d) Joseph Chamberlain
Answer is (a)

12. Christian missionaries in India wanted to:
(a) westernize India
(b) defer to local culture
(c) replace blind superstition
(d) all of the above
Answer is (c)

13. Which of the following did not embrace “scientific racism”?
(a) Hubertine Auclert
(b) Francis Galton
(c) John Stuart Mill
(d) Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Answer is (c)

14. The London Pan-African Congress of 1900:
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