Deck 18: Three Powers in the Age of Liberalism: Parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Republican France

Question 1

Commenting on government plans to legislate public health,The Times commented,

A)"We prefer to take our chance on cholera and the rest than be bullied into health."
B)"It is about time something is done."
C)"We need a commission to study the problem before we try any solutions."
D)"Public health should be the job of the local government,not the national one."
E)"This is a great idea,but do we have the money needed?"

Answer 1

"We prefer to take our chance on cholera and the rest than be bullied into health."

Question 2

Zemstvos and dumas were

A)district assemblies and city councils.
B)Russian cities.
C)early Russian political parties.
D)Russian secret societies.
E)Russian titles of nobility.

Answer 2

district assemblies and city councils.

Question 3

During the Crimean War,what was responsible for the most deaths?

A)rifle bullets
B)land cannon fire
C)fire from naval guns
D)disease
E)freezing temperatures

Answer 3

disease

Question 4

By the 1860s,France's major export was

A)wine.
B)perfume.
C)capital.
D)high-fashion clothes.
E)champagne.

Question 5

"Bureaucracy" was a new term in Victorian Britain;when the queen asked for a definition she was told,

A)"It is a system of government where important decisions are made by government officials,not politicians or kings."
B)"It is a system of government where officials are in charge of specific departments."
C)"Your Majesty,no one knows the clear definition."
D)"That,Madam,is something that they have in France."
E)"Madam,this is not something the ladies need to know."

Question 6

Benjamin Disraeli was an atypical leader among nineteenth-century British conservatives because he

A)had been born abroad.
B)was an atheist.
C)started his political life as a radical.
D)did not believe in the institution of monarchy.
E)was born Jewish and was a man of modest means.

Question 7

What was "Bloody Sunday"?

A)the name Russian Orthodox people used for Easter Sunday
B)the worst day of fighting during the Russo-Japanese War
C)the day when the Decembrist rebels were executed
D)the day in 1905 when the Russian army opened fire,killing peaceful protesters
E)the day "The People's Will" assassinated Tsar Alexander II

Question 8

Why did the Russian army lose the Russo-Japanese War?

A)The Russians were outnumbered.
B)Russians were largely pacifists,and many soldiers refused to fight.
C)Great Britain helped Japan.
D)Russia was afraid of an attack by Austria.
E)The Russians were poorly armed and led,and their transportation system was insufficient.

Question 9

Which Russian leader was said to resemble a "provincial grocer"?

A)Tsar Nicholas II
B)Tsar Alexander III
C)Prime Minister Witte
D)Lenin
E)Prime Minister Stolypin

Question 10

What were the beliefs of the Russian "Westernizers"?

A)Russia should develop the western part of the country.
B)Russia should look to the West for models of political,social,and economic development.
C)Russia should form military alliances with western countries.
D)Russian students should study in western universities.
E)Russia should expand to the West at the expense of Austria and Prussia.

Question 11

What were the beliefs of the Russian "Slavophiles"?

A)Slavery was the basis of a functioning society.
B)Slavery needed to be abolished,and reparations needed to be paid to former slaves.
C)Unique Russian social and religious characteristics could save the country from the ills of modernization.
D)Slovaks were brothers to the Russian people.
E)Slovenes were brothers to the Russian people.

Question 12

In the pamphlet What Is to Be Done?,

A)Marx explained his social policy.
B)Lenin established the basic tenets of a new revolutionary party.
C)Bakunin explained the basis of anarchism.
D)Tsar Alexander II outlined his policy for freeing the serfs.
E)Tsar Nicholas II explained the new Russian constitution.

Question 13

Shortly after the French Third Republic was established,the royalists came close to forming a common party.They failed because the pretender to the throne

A)did not want to be elected king by the people.
B)wanted to be commander-in-chief of the army.
C)wanted all references to republic and Napoleon removed from school books.
D)did not want to be king and use the tricolor flag of the French Revolution.
E)did not want the job.

Question 14

In the mid-nineteenth century in Britain,the term "Victorian" meant

A)someone related to Queen Victoria.
B)someone working for Queen Victoria.
C)the moral,hardworking,confident British middle class.
D)all people living in the British isles.
E)sexually repressed people.

Question 15

Who were the "nihilists"?

A)a French political party
B)Irish revolutionaries
C)a Russian group that rejected all established order
D)the tsar's secret police
E)an intellectual group that operated under strict moral dogmas

Question 16

The book On the Origins of Species by Charles Darwin helped support what Victorian ideal?

A)belief in animal experiments
B)the view that competition would determine those who were fit to rule
C)the belief that God had destined humans to rule over the other species
D)that travel to the Galapagos Islands was the highest achievement possible
E)that biology was the most important academic subject to study

Question 17

What were "Land and Freedom" and "The People's Will"?

A)Russian newspapers advocating political changes
B)"Land and Freedom" was a rural-based Russian political party,"The People's Will" an urban-based one.
C)They were both violent revolutionary Russian organizations.
D)early names of the Russian Communist Party
E)right-wing Russian secret societies

Question 18

By the middle of the nineteenth century,what empire was known as "the sick man of Europe"?

A)the French Empire
B)the British Empire
C)the Russian Empire
D)the Ottoman Empire
E)the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Question 19

Why was Russia able to free its serfs practically without bloodshed,yet in the United States,it took a civil war to free the slaves?

A)Russian serf owners did not have guns.
B)American slaveholders were violent people by nature.
C)There were not as many Russian serfs as there were American slaves.
D)Tsar Alexander II moved the army quickly to take control of the whole country.
E)The Russian government exercised more centralized authority than the U.S.government,and the Russian nobility did not consider private property a fundamental right the way Americans did.

Question 20

What is the English translation of the Russian word soviet?

A)council
B)communist
C)king
D)parliament
E)newspaper

Question 21

Georges Boulanger was

A)a famous French pastry chef.
B)a French hero who died in the Franco-Prussian War.
C)a French officer accused of treason.
D)a French general whose popularity was a threat to the Third Republic.
E)the first president of the French Third Republic.

Question 22

How did the policies of Napoleon III help transform the French economy?

Question 23

Alfred Dreyfus was

A)the first prime minister of the Third Republic.
B)a well-known French-Jewish financier.
C)the French engineer who built the Suez Canal.
D)a French-Jewish officer unjustly accused of treason.
E)a French-Jewish socialist political thinker.

Question 24

Until 1977,Paris did not have a mayor because

A)the prime minister of France was the mayor of the city.
B)no one wanted the job.
C)the republic neglected Paris.
D)of the fear that the mayor of the capital might become too powerful.
E)the title of the mayor of Paris was "perfect."

Question 25

Afraid that a Napoleon-like leader might stage a coup,the republicans of the late nineteenth century made sure that

A)most prominent supporters of Napoleon were exiled or jailed.
B)the executive authority was weak.
C)the police would keep a close eye on enemies of the republic.
D)the French army was not too strong.
E)areas that supported the republic elected more representatives.

Question 26

What international tensions led the French and the British to support the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War?

Question 27

The main supporters of the Third Republic in France were

A)the communards.
B)upper-class Parisians.
C)the lower-middle class.
D)the local notables of the French countryside.
E)the workers.