NATIONALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN EUROPE (1815-1915) QUIZ
• What did the Chartists in England favor?
a. Unbridled Capitalism b. Anarchism
c. Moderate reform
d. Utopian soicialism e. communism
• The first country to experience a communist revolution was:
a. Cuba b. North Korea
c. China d. Japan e. Russia
• Which one of the following is most definitely supported by Communism?
a. religion b. individual incentive and competition
c. individual freedoms
d. It promotes laissez faire. e. economic determinism
• William Gladstone is historically significant because:
a. He contributed to the expansion of Communism in England.
b. He was an artist who portrayed the Wreteched Working conditions in England
c. He was a military general who contributed to the unification of Great
Britain
d. He was a British Prime Minister who sponsored social & economic reforms.
e. He firmly believed in and promoted unbridled capitalism in England.
• Which of the following was NOT a major concern in Ireland during
the nineteenth century? a. Desire for home rule; b. absentee
landlords who charged high rents; c. Desire to raise tariffs
on grain; d. a potatoe famine.
• Which of the following was most definitely NOT a characteristic of
France and England by 1915? a. They were interested in expanding their
empires; b. their industrial production was doing well; c. they adopted
legislation to eliminate earlier "wretched" working conditions; d.
their governments were primarily utopian socialists.
• Which statement is Most True about the Zollverein?
a. It wanted to unite Italy b. It wanted to establish tariff
agreements among all German states; c. It wanted the King of
Prussia to be a Constitutional Monarch for all of Germany. d. It wanted
to unite Germany by "blood and iron" methods.
• What was the primary objective of the Frankfurt Assembly?
a. Unified Italy through any possible means b. to
establish tariff agreements among all German states; c. Unified
Germany under a Constitutional Monarchy. d. Unified Germany through
"blood and iron" methods.
• Which statement is Most True about Otto von Bismarck?
a. He wanted to unite Italy b. He wanted to establish tariff
agreements among all German states; c. He wanted the King of
Prussia to be a Constitutional Monarch for all of Germany; d. He wanted
to unite Germany by "blood & iron".
• Which of the following best describes the First German Reich of 1871?
a. constitutional monarchy; b. absolute monarchy; c. Nazi
d. Communist.
• Which is Most True about Risorgimento? a. It was an attempt
to unite Italy by "blood & iron" b. It was an attempt to unite
Germany by "blood & iron"; c. It was a trade union; d. It
was a spirit striving to restore the glory of Italy's past.
• Where were the Papal States before Italy's unification? a) nonexistent;
b) in northern Italy; c) In France;
d) in Central Italy; e) in Southern Italy.
• Who was the leader of the "Red Shirts" which overthrew the despotic
rule of Francis II in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies? a. G. Mazzini;
b. Count Camillo de Cavour; c.
G. Garibaldi; d. Benito Mussolini.