The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
Question 1
Elle, the measuring unit in Germany was used to measure?
Year of Question(:2010)
Answer:
cloth
Question 2.
The headquarter of the United Nations is at?
Year of Question :(2011)
- Geneva
- Paris
- New York
- Washington, D.C.
Answer:
New York
Explanation The headquarter of the United Nations is at New York. The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison, and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952.
Question 3.
Zollevrein started in 1834 in Prussia refers to a?
Year of Question :(2007)
- Trade Union
- Customs Union
- Labour Union
- Farmer Union
Answer:Customs Union
Question 4.
What do the saints, angels and Christ symbolise in the Utopian vision?
Year of Question: (2018)
- Equality among people
- Fraternity among nations
- Freedom of nations
- Resentment against nations
Answer:Fraternity among nations
Question 5.
Who were the Junkers?
Year of Question :(2010)
- Soldiers
- Large landowners
- Aristocracy
- Weavers
Answer:Large landowners
Question 6.
Which treaty recognised Greece as an independent nation?
Year of Question :(2011)
- Treaty of Constantinople, 1832
- Treaty of Vienna, 1815
- Treaty of Versailles, 1871
- None of these
Answer:Treaty of Constantinople 1832
Question 7.
By which of the following treaties was the United Kingdom of Great Britainformed?
Year of Question: (2008)
- Treaty of Versailles
- Act of Union
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty of Vienna
Answer:Act of Union
Question 8.
Which of the following group of powers collectively defeated Napoleon?
Year of Question:(2012)
- England, France, Italy, Russia
- England, Austria, Spain, Russia
- Austria, Prussia, Russia, Britain
- Britain, Prussia, Russia, Italy
Answer:Austria, Prussia, Russia, Britain
Question 9.
Romanticism refers to a?
Year of Question :(2010)
- cultural movement
- religious movement
- political movement
- literary movement
Answer:cultural movement
Question 10.
Which one of the following types of government was functioning in France before the revolution of 1789?
Year of Question :(2010)
- Dictatorship
- Military
- Body of French Citizen
- Monarchy
Answer:Monarchy
Question 11.
Which of the following countries is considered as the cradle of European civilization?
Year of Question :(2010)
- England
- France
- Greece
- Russia
Answer:Greece
Question 12.
Choose the correct nationality of the artist Frederic Sorrieu who visualised in his painting a society made up of Democratic and Social Republic?
Year of Question :(2011)
- German
- Swiss
- French
- American
Answer:Swiss
Question 13.
Nationalism, which emerged as a force in the late 19th century, means?
Year of Question :(2006)
- strong devotion for one own country and its history and culture
- strong devotion for one own country without appreciation for other nations
- strong love for one own country and hatred for others
- equally strong devotion for all the countries of the world
Answer:strong devotion for one own country and its history and culture
Question 14.
Match the term with the statements given below
A Utopian Society is?
Year of Question :(2010)
- a society under a benevolent monarchy
- a society that is unlikely to ever exist
- a society under the control of a chosen few wise men
- a society under Parliamentary Democracy
- (1) and (2)
- (2) and (3)
- (2) only
- (3) only
Answer:a society that is unlikely to ever exist
Question 15.
Pick out the correct definition to define the term Plebiscite?
Year of Question :(2011)
- Plebiscite is a direct vote by which only the female members of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal
- Plebiscite is a direct vote by the female members of a matriarchal system to accept or reject a proposal
- Plebiscite is a direct vote by only a chosen few from the total population of a parti-cular region to accept or reject a proposal
- Plebiscite is a direct vote by which all the citizens of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal
Answer:Plebiscite is a direct vote by which all the citizens of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal
Question 16.
Ernst Renan believed that the existence of nations is a necessity because?
Year of Question :(2011)
- it ensures protection to all inhabitants
- it ensures liberty to all inhabitant citizens
- it ensures Parliamentary form of govern-ment to its inhabitants
- it ensures jobs and good health to all its inhabitants
Answer:it ensures liberty to all inhabitant citizens
Question 17.
Which of the following countries did not attend the Congress of Vienna?
Year of Question :(2006)
- Britain
- Russia
- Prussia
- Switzerland
Answer:Switzerland
Question 18.
The first great revolution which gave the clear idea of nationalism with its core words: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity was?
Year of Question :(2010)
- The Russian Revolution
- The French Revolution
- The American Revolution
- India First War of Independence
Answer:The French Revolution
Question 19.
Which of the following statements about the French Revolution are correct?
Year of Question :(2010)
- After the end of the French Revolution it was proclaimed that it was the people who would henceforth constitute the nation and shape its destiny
- France will have a constitutional monarchy and the new republic will be headed by a member of the royal family
- A centralised administrative system will be put in place to formulate uniform laws for all citizens
- Imposition of internal custom duties and dues will continue to exist in France
- (2) and (3)
- (2) and (4)
- (1) and (3)
- (3) and (4)
Answer: A centralised administrative system will be put in place to formulate uniform laws for all citizens
Question 20.
The French revolutionaries declared that the mission and destiny of the French nation was?
Year of Question :(2011)
- to conquer the people of Europe
- to liberate the people of Europe from despotism
- to strengthen absolute monarchies in all the countries of Europe
- to propagate the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity in every part of the world
Answer:to liberate the people of Europe from despotism
Question 21.
The Civil Code of 1804 in France is usually known as?
Year of Question :(2008)
- The French Revolutionary Code
- Napoleonic Code
- European Imperial Code
- The French Civil Code
Answer: Napoleonic Code
Question 22.
The Napoleonic Code was exported to which of the following regions?
Year of Question :(2008)
- England
- Spain
- Regions under French control
- Poland
Answer: Regions under French control
Question 23.
The liberal nationalism stands for?
Year of Question :(2011)
- freedom for the individual and equality before law
- preservation of autocracy and clerical privileges
- freedom for only male members of society and equality before law
- freedom only for senior citizens
ans: freedom for the individual and equality before law
Question 24.
Who among the following formed the secret society called Young Italy?
Year of Question:(2012)
- Otto von Bismarck
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- Mettemich
- Johann Gottfried Herder
Answer: Giuseppe Mazzini
Question 25.
The term Universal Suffrage means?
Year of Question :(2011)
- the right to vote and get elected, granted only to men
- the right to vote for all adults
- the right to vote and get elected, granted exclusively to property owning men
- the right to vote and get elected, granted only to educated men and women
Answer: the right to vote for all adults
Question 26.
Which of the following is not a feature or belief of Conservatism?
Year of Question:(2010)
- Conservatives believe in established, traditional institutions of state and policy
- Conservatives stressed the importance of tradition and preferred gradual develop¬ment to quick change
- Conservatives proposed to return to the society of pre-revolutionary days and were against the ideas of modernisation to strengthen monarchy
- Conservatives believed in the monarchy, church, and other social hierarchies
Answer: Conservatives proposed to return to the society of pre-revolutionary days and were against the ideas of modernisation to strengthen monarchy
Question 27.
The Treaty of recognized Greece?
Year of Question :(2015)
as an independent nation:
- Vienna 1815
- Constantinople 1832
- Warsaw 1814
- Leipzig 1813
Answer: Constantinople1832
Question 28.
Who said When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold?
Year of Question:(2011)
- Garibaldi
- Bismarck
- Mazzini
- Duke Metternich
Answer: Duke Metternich
Question 29.
What happened to Poland at the end of 18th century. Which of the following answers is correct?
Year of Question :(2016)
- Poland achieved independence at the end of the 18th century
- Poland came totally under the control of Russia and became part of Russia
- Poland became the part of East Germany
- Poland was partitioned at the end of the 18th century by three Great Powers: Russia, Prussia and Austria
Answer: Poland was partitioned at the end of the 18th century by three Great Powers: Russia, Prussia and Austria
Question 30.
Who played the leading role in the unification of Germany?
Year of Question :(2010)
- German Emperor (formerly King of Prussia) - Kaiser William I.
- Otto Von Bismarck (Prussian Chief Minister)
- Johann Gottfried Herder - German philosopher
- Austrian Chancellor - Duke Metternich
Answer: Otto Von Bismarck (Prussian Chief Minister)
Question 31.
Three wars over seven years with Austria, Denmark, Germany and France, ended in?
Year of Question:(2009)
- Danish victory
- Prussian victory
- French victory
- German victory
Answer: Prussian victory
Question 32.
Who was proclaimed the emperor of Germany in 1871?
Year of Question :(2009)
- Otto Von Bismarck
- Victor Emmanuel II
- Count Cavour
- Kaiser William I of Prussia
Answer: Kaiser William I of Prussia
Question 33.
Who became the King of United Italy in 1861?
Year of Question :(2010)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Victor Emmanuel II
- Count Cavour
- Giuseppe Mazzini
Answer: Victor Emmanuel II
Question 34.
What helped in the formation of a nation-state in Britain?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: The parliament through a bloodless revolution seized power from the monarchy which gradually led to the emergence of a nation-state
- The formation of a nation-state in Britain was the result of a sudden upheaval
- In 1688, the monarchy in Britain had seized the power from English Parliament
- The parliament through a bloodless revolution seized power from the monarchy which gradually led to the emergence of a nation-state
- The British nation was formed as a result of a war with Scotland and Wales
Question 35.
Who was responsible for the unification of Germany?
Year of Question :(2010)
- Count Cavour
- Bismarck
- Garibaldi
- Giuseppe Mazzini
Answer:Bismarck
Question 36.
The allegory of the German nation who wears a crown of oak leaves was a?
Year of Question :(2011)
- Marianne
- Union Jack
- Britannia
- Germania
Answer: Germania
Question 37.
A large part of Balkan region was under the control of?
Year of Question :(2014)
- Russian empire
- Ottoman empire
- German empire
- Habsburg rulers
Answer: Ottoman empire
Question 38.
Austrian Chancellor -------- hosted the Congress of Vienna?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Duke Mettemich
Question 39.
The first clear expression of nationalism came with the -------- ?
Year of Question: (2011)
Answer:French revolution
Question 40.
The Civil Code of 1804 was known as the --------?
Year of Question :(2001)
Answer:Napoleonic Code
Question 41.
-------- became the allegory of the German nation?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: Germania
Question 42.
Frederic Sorrieu was a --------?
Year of Question: (2011)
Answer:French artist
Question 43.
A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the --------Empire?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer: Ottoman
Question 44.
Conservative regimes set up in 1815 were democratic in nature. (True/False)?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:False
Question 45.
A direct vote by which all the people of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal is known as lapatrie. (True/False)?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:False
Question 46.
In 1861, Friedrich Wilhelm IV was proclaimed the king of united Italy. (True/False)?
Year of Question :(2011)
ans: False
Question 47.
The term absolutist referred to monarchical government. (True/False)?
Year of Question :(2001)
Answer: True
Question 48.
The Treaty of Constantinople of 1832 recognised Greece as an independent nation. (True/F alse)?
Year of (2011)
Answer:True
Question 49.
Giuseppe Mazzini formed a secret society called Young Italy for the dissemination of his goals. (True/False)?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:True
Question 50.
To which country did the artist Frederic Sorrieu belong? [Delhi 2017(C)]?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: Artist Frederic Sorrieu belonged to France
Question 51.
What is referred to as Absolutism?
Year of Question :(2004)
Answer:Unrestricted, despotic and authoritarian monarchial system of rule or government is referred to as absolutism
Question 52.
Define Nation?
Year of Question :(2003)
Answer:A body of people who are united by same past, culture, political system and common interests can be defined as a Nation
Question 53
What was the concept of a nation-state?
Year of Question: (2010)
Answer:The concept of a nation-state was one in which people and rulers of land came together to develop a sense of common identity and shared history
Question 54.
Define Plebiscite?
Year of Question:(2011)
Answer: is a system of direct vote by which the people of a region, themselves decide to accept or reject a proposal
Question 55.
Match the columns?
Year of Question :(2011)
Column A |
Column B |
French Revolution |
brought the conservative regimes back to power |
(i) Liberalism |
(ii) ensured right to property for the privileged |
Napoleonic Code |
( iii) recognised Greece as an independent nation |
The Treaty of Vienna |
( iv) transfer of sovereignty from monarch to the French citizens |
Treaty of Constantinople |
(v) individual freedom and equality before law |
Answer:
Question 56.
Which form of government was operating in France before the revolution of 1789?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: Monarchy
Question 57.
What was the mission of the French revolutionaries?
Year of Question: (2011)
Answer:The mission of the French revolutionaries was to liberate the people of Europe from despotism and help people to form nations
Question 58.
What was Napoleonic Code?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:Napoleonic code refers to reforms incorporated in administration to make the syStem more rational and efficient
Question 59.
Name the provinces under the Habsburg Empire?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:The Habsburg Empire ruled over Austria- Hungary. It included the Alpine region of Tyrol, Austria, Sudetenland as well as Bohemia along with Italian speaking provinces of Lombardy and Venetia
Question 60.
Name the two Italian-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire?
Year of Question:(2009)
Answer: Lombardy and Venetia
Question 61.
What was the tie that bind the diverse groups of Habsburg Empire?
Year of Question:(2013)
Answer: Common allegiance to the emperor
Question 62.
What did the new social group comprise of that came into being in the 19th century comprised of?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:The new social group that came into being in the 19th century comprised of working class and middle class made up of industrialists, businessmen and professionals
Question 63.
What ideas gained popularity among the educated liberal middle class?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:The ideas of national unity following the abolition of aristocratic privileges gained popularity among the educated liberal middle class
Question 64.
What did liberalism stand for the new middle classes?
Year of Question :(2019)
Answer:For new middle classes, liberalism Stood for freedom for individual and equality of all before the law
Question 65.
What did 19th century liberals stress upon?
Year of Question :(2008)
Answer:19th century liberals stressed upon inviolability of private property
Question 66.
What does suffrage mean?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:Suffrage means the right to vote
Question 67.
What was the status of women under the Napoleonic Code?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Napoleonic code reduced women to the status of a minor, subjected to the authority of fathers and husbands
Question 68.
What did liberalism stand for the economic sphere?
Year of Question :(2012)
Answer:In the economic sphere, liberalism stood for freedom of markets and abolition of restriction on the movement of goods and capital
Question 69.
What was the strong demand of the emerging middle class in Europe during the 19th century? [Foreign 2016]?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Freedom of markets and abolition of restriction on the movement of goods and capital were strong demands of the emerging middle class in Europe during the 19th century
Question 70.
What was the basic philosophy of the conservatives?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:The basic philosophy of the conservatives was to preserve the traditional institutions such as church, monarchy, social hierarchies, property and family etc
Question 71.
Which dynasty was deposed during the French Revolution and later restored to power by conservatives?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:The Bourbon dynasty
Question 72.
What was the nature of Conservative regimes set up in 1815?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: The conservative regimes set up in 1815 were autocratic in nature
Question 73.
What was the major issue taken up by the liberal nationalists?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:The liberal nationalists took up the issue of freedom autocratic of press
Question 74.
What was the main aim of the revolutionaries of Europe?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer: The European revolutionaries aimed at opposing the monarchial order established after the Vienna Congress and struggle for liberty and freedom
Question 75.
What views did Giuseppe Mazzini have about Italy?
Year of Question :(2009)
Answer:It was Mazzini belief that God wanted nations to be the natural units of mankind. So Italy could no longer be a patchwork of small states. It had to take shape of a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations
Question 76.
How was Mazzini described by Mettemich?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Mettemich described Mazzini as the most dangerous enemy of the social order
Question 77.
Who headed the constitutional monarchy installed by liberal revolutionaries in 1830?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:Louis Philippe headed the constitutional monarchy installed by liberal revolutionaries in 1830
Question 78.
Who remarked "When France sneezes the rest of Europe catches cold"? ?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer: Duke Mettemich
Question 79.
How did Lord Byron contribute to the Greek war of Independence?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Lord Byron, an English poet, organised funds for the Greek struggle against the Ottoman Empire and also participated in the war
Question 80.
What did the Romantic artists and poets criticise?
Year of Question :(2019)
Answer:They criticised glorification of reason and science
Question 81.
Who claimed that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:German philosopher, a Romanticist, Johann Gottfried Hardor
Question 82.
What is meant by das volk?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Das volk is a German word meaning common people
Question 83.
What was the term given to true spirit of a nation in Germany?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer: Volksgeist
Question 84.
What was the result of the rise in population in Europe in the first half of the 19th century?
Year of Question :(2013)
Answer:It created unemployment and many people from the mral areas started migrating to the cities in search of jobs
Question 85.
Where was the Frankfurt Parliament convened?
Year of Question :(2010)
Answer:The Frankfurt Parliament was convened at the Church of St Paul
Question 86.
Why did the middle class lose its support after the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament?
Year of Question :(2014)
Answer:Because they resisted the demands of the workers and the artisans
Question 87.
Which state led the unification of Germany?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Prussia led the unification of Germany
Question 88.
Who holds the credit of unifying Germany?
year of Question :(2016)
Answer:Otto von Bismarck
Question 89.
Who was proclaimed the German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles in January 1871?
Year of Question :(2015)
Answer: Kaiser William I
Question 90.
Who headed Sardinia-Piedmont?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer: King Victor Emmanuel II
Question 91.
Who led the movement to unify the regions of Italy?
Year of Question :(2017)
Answer:Chief Minister of Sardinia - Piedmont Cavour
Question 92.
In 1861, who was proclaimed the king of united Italy?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: Victor Emmanuel II
Question 93.
Name the ethnic groups who inhabited the British Isles?
Year of Question :(2018)
Answer: The English, Welsh, Scot or Irish
Question 94.
What was the result of the Act of Union (1707)?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer:The Act of Union 1707 resulted in the formation of United Kingdom of Great Britain with the incorporation of Scotland
Question 95.
What is an allegory?
Year of Question:(2017)
Answer:An idea expressed in the form of a person or a thing
Question 96.
Who represented France as nation?
Year of Question :(2016)
Answer: Marianne
Question 97.
What was Germania?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer: It was an allegory of Germany
Question 98.
Who were the Slavs?
Year of Question:(2018)
Answer:The inhabitants of the regions under the Ottoman Empire like modem-day Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro were called the Slavs
Question 99.
What made the Balkan area explosive?
Year of Question :(2019)
Answer:Spread of romantic nationalism and disintegration of Ottoman Empire
Question 100.
Name the powers that were keen in countering the hold of other powers over the Balkans and extending their control over the area?
Year of Question :(2011)
Answer:Russia, Germany, England and Austro- Hungary
Question 101.
What led Europe into disaster in 1914?
Year of Question :(2018)
Answer:Nationalism aligned with imperialism
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