Deck 7: The High Middle Ages

Question 1

In 1849 the Italian revolutionaries Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi helped to establish a new republic in:

A) Piedmont
B) Rome
C) Florence
D) Naples

Answer 1

Rome

Question 2

Obstacles to Italian unification during the nineteenth century included all but which of the following?

A) language divisions between north and south
B) economic differences between north and south
C) control of Italian territories by France
D) control of Italian territories by Austria

Answer 2

control of Italian territories by France

Question 3

Which of the following territories was not annexed by Prussia at the conclusion of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866?

A) Hanover
B) Holstein
C) Hesse
D) Bavaria

Answer 3

Bavaria

Question 4

In French history, the "Bloody Week" is associated with:

A) the suppression of the Paris Commune
B) the Revolution of 1848
C) the Austro-Sardinian War
D) the Franco-Prussian War

Question 5

In the nineteenth century the strongest threat to German-dominated Austria from within the Austro-Hungarian Empire came from:

A) the Czechs
B) the Slovaks
C) the Poles
D) the Magyars

Question 6

The strongest argument used by Lincoln and Grant against the secession of the Southern states was that it was:

A) immoral
B) impractical
C) unconstitutional
D) just plain wrong

Question 7

Which of the following does not belong in a list of middle-class values during the Victorian period of the nineteenth century?

A) sobriety
B) bravery
C) morality
D) hard work

Question 8

Who was the author of the 1893 play The Weavers?

A) Gerhart Hauptmann
B) Charles Dickens
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Henrik Ibsen

Question 9

The most sweeping social legislation on behalf of the working class during the nineteenth century was enacted in:

A) Britain
B) France
C) Italy
D) Germany

Question 10

The most lenient divorce laws in nineteenth-century Europe were passed in:

A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) Austria

Question 11

In what year did the US Supreme Court-in one of its most controversial decisions-decide to uphold a fugitive slave law that gave slaveholders the right to recover slaves who had fled to non-slave states?

A) 1859
B) 1854
C) 1849
D) 1844

Question 12

What country passed the Law for the Suppression and Punishment of the Slave Trade in 1866?

A) Cuba
B) Spain
C) Brazil
D) the United States

Question 13

In Henrik Ibsen's play The Enemy of the People, Peter Stockman accuses his brother of always "badgering," "ridiculing," and "destroying":

A) tradition
B) authority
C) religion
D) the bourgeoisie

Question 14

Thomas Hardy exposed flaws in human nature that frequently led to tragic circumstances in a number of novels, including:

A) Hard Times
B) A Doll's House
C) The Story of an African Farm
D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Question 15

The nineteenth-century cultural movement that shared the most with the artistic movement known as impressionism was:

A) romanticism
B) socialism
C) liberalism
D) nationalism

Question 16

In 1859 Piedmont and France declared war on what country?

Question 17

What was the name of the scandal in late nineteenth-century France that involved a major cover-up to protect the prestige and honor of the French army?

Question 18

What was nickname of the Irish Republican Brotherhood that formed in the 1860s to try to liberate land in Ireland from English control?

Question 19

What was the name of the war that Russia fought against Britain and France in the mid-1850s?

Question 20

What was the significance of the year 1861 in Russian history?

Question 21

What country abolished the slave trade in 1851 but was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery?

Question 22

What factors might account for the success of the movements toward national unification in Italy and Germany? In what ways were the processes of unification similar in both places? In what ways were they different? What were some of the other manifestations of nationalism elsewhere during the nineteenth century?

Question 23

What was the significance of the Dreyfus affair for French history? What was its significance for European history? Explain the difference in the answer to these two questions with reference to the larger context of political and cultural developments in European history in the late nineteenth century.