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Mr. Murphy
1. Prussia's victory over Austria in 1866 led to
A) the consolidation of Prussian authority
among North German states
B) increased military conflict between Prussia
and Britain
C) greater Austrian involvement in German
political affairs
D) uprisings in Austria against Prussian
interference
E) an alliance between Denmark and Austria
against Prussia
2. As a consequence to the Franco–Prussian War
A) France ceded Alsace–Lorraine to Germany
B) Napoleon III was able to strengthen his
power
C) Bismarck was forced to resign
D) William I pledged not to interfere on the
issue of the vacant Spanish throne
E) Germany postponed its declaration of the
German Empire
3. The Franco–Prussian War
A) demonstrated German military superiority
B) was used by Napoleon III to increase his
grip on power
C) devastated the populations of both Germany
and France
D) was preceded by the proclamation of the
German Empire
E) began with a Prussian declaration of war
4. The establishment of the North German
Confederation in 1867 was an important step
because it
A) helped with German unification
B) led to the demise of Bismarck's political
career
C) marked Germany as the preeminent
European power
D) it diminished the influence of Prussian King
William I
E) forced Prussia into direct conflict with
France
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5. The conclusion of the Seven Weeks' War proved
to be a pivotal moment in German history
because
A) Austria would not become part of any new
German state
B) Austria would become part of a new
German state
C) Prussian military power reached its height
D) it resulted in the abdication of William I
E) this led to a unified German state
6. The Peace of Prague, ending the German Civil
War
I. stipulated that the Kleindeutsch plan had
prevailed over the Grossdeutsch plan
II. indicated that the Grossdeutsch plan had
prevailed over the Kleindeutsch plan
III. ceded Venetia to Italy
IV. forced Austria to pay Prussia an
indemnity
A) I only
C) II, III
E) II, III, IV
B) I, III
D) I, III, IV
7. The Gastein Convention of 1865
A) stated that Germany would administer
Schleswig and Austria would administer
Holstein
B) granted all of Schleswig–Holstein to Prussia
C) concluded the Seven Weeks' War
D) ended Danish claims to Schleswig–Holstein
E) made a lasting peace between Prussia and
Austria
8. The Schleswig–Holstein question in the mid
1860's involved
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Prussia and Austria
Prussia and France
Austria and Italy
France and Italy
Britain and France
9. The balance of power which had prevailed in
Europe throughout most of the nineteenth
century ended with the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
English possession of India and Egypt
rearming of the French
unification of Germany
fusion of Austria with Hungary
Russian acquisition of the Ottoman Empire
10. Base your answer on the picture below.
12. Cavour and Garibaldi agreed that Italy should
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
be independent of foreign control
become a republic upon its unification
become unified through revolution
be led by the pope in the new Italian state
receive foreign aid to drive out the
Austrians
13. Italy faced all of the following after unification
EXCEPT a(n)
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
labor shortage
hostile relationship with the Vatican
inequitable tax system
rift between the north and the south
large government debt
14. In 1870, the First Vatican Council acted to
strengthen the pope's position as head of the
Catholic Church by
A) proclaiming the dogma of papal
infallibility
B) seeking to regain the Papal States
C) publishing the Syllabus of Errors
D) advocating economic and social reform
E) allying the church with Germany
15. The leader of the Red Shirts was
The picture above represents which figure from
the Italian Risorgimento?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Victor Emmanuel II
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Count Camillo de Cavour
Vitttorio Orlando
11. Cavour's most notable non–Italian ally in
bringing about a unified Italy was
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Napoleon III
Otto von Bismarck
Lord Palmerston
Franz Joseph
Queen Victoria
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Camillo de Cavour
King Victor Emmanuel II
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Jan Manuel de Rosas
16. By the time of Cavour's death in 1861, Victor
Emmanuel II ruled over all of the Italian
Peninsula EXCEPT
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Venetia and Rome
Tuscany and Rome
Naples and Sicily
Piedmont and Sardinia
Lombardy and Florence
17. Soon after the Plombieres Agreement
A) the Austrians declared war on Sardinia
B) Sardinia declared war against Austria
C) the French broke their agreement with
Sardinia and invaded northern Italy
D) the Catholic Church allied itself with
Austria and invaded Sardinia
E) Sardinia allied itself with Austria
18. The Plombieres Agreement was designed to
A) bring about a war with Austria and to help
Sardinia develop an expanded northern
Italian kingdom
B) unify Italy
C) give France a foothold in Italy
D) elevate the position of the Catholic Church
in Italian affairs
E) enact economic reform in northern Italy
19. Under the Plombieres Agreement, if Sardinia
and France drove Austria out of Italy
I. Sardinia would declare a unified Italian
monarchy
II. France would receive Nice and Savoy
III. Sardinia would annex Lombardy,
Venetia, Parma, Modena, and part of the Papal
States
IV. Sardinia and France would then invade
the Austrian Empire
A) II only
C) I, II
E) II, III
B) III only
D) I, IV
20. The Plombieres Agreement stated that
A) in the event that Sardinia went to war with
Austria, France would provide military
assistance
B) in the event that France went to war with
Austria, Sardinia would provide military
assistance
C) Sardinia would give Savoy to France in
exchange for Parma
D) Sardinia would join the French side in the
Crimean War
E) peace with Austria was Sardinia's prime
foreign policy objective
21. At Plombieres in 1859, Cavour met with
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Napoleon III
Lord Palmerston
Pope Pius IX
Otto von Bismarck
Giuseppe Garibaldi
22. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1856,
Sardinian Prime Minister Cavour called for
A) the need to eliminate the Austrian presence
in the Italian Peninsula
B) approval of Italian unification
C) advice on the implementation of a new
Sardinian constitution
D) an increased role for Sardinia in foreign
affairs
E) European help in curtailing the influence of
the Catholic Church
23. The Statuto, the Sardinian constitution was
modeled after
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
the French constitution of 1830
the French constitution of 1789
the French constitution of 1852
the American constitution
the Prussian constitution of 1850
24. Cavour implemented legislation to reform
Sardinia in order to
A) attract the support of liberal states such as
France and England
B) put political pressure on Victor Emmanuel
II
C) shift focus away from the nation's
economic troubles
D) win favor with the Catholic Church
E) annex Central Italy
25. As Prime Minster of Sardinia Cavour did all of
the following EXCEPT
A) passed legislation curtailing the influence
of the Catholic Church
B) reformed the judicial system
C) fully implemented the Sardinian
constitution
D) supported economic development
E) developed one of Europe's largest armed
forces
26. The newspaper Il Risorgimento, edited by
Camillo de Cavour, argued
A) that Sardinia should serve as the basis of a
new Italy
B) for Sardinian control over northern Italy
C) against the government policies of the
Papal States
D) against the Italian revolution of 1848
E) for a socialist government in Sardinia
27. The Neo–Guelph movement
A) supported a unified Italian state centered
on the Papacy
B) supported Italian states under foreign
dominion
C) supported Italian unification under
Garibaldi
D) was based in the Piedmont region of Italy
E) was led by Giuseppe Mazzini
28. All of the following statements about the
short-lived Roman Republic of 1849 are correct
EXCEPT it
A) included one of its leaders, Giuseppe
Mazzini
B) overthrew the Papal States
C) granted complete religious freedom to all
groups
D) guaranteed the pope the right to govern the
Catholic Church
E) came to power with the military aid of
France and Austria
29. The nineteenth century Roman Republic refers
to a
A) short-lived state established in 1849 that
temporarily overthrew the Papal States
B) resuscitation of the old Roman Republic
C) plan for a unified Italian republic to be
centered in Rome
D) secret Roman society with Socialist
political views
E) design to modernize and beautify the city
of Rome
30. The collapse of the revolutionary movements of
1848 transferred leadership of Italian
nationalism to
A) Victor Emmanuel II and Camillo de
Cavour
B) Charles Albert and Giosue Carducci
C) Pius IX and Fernandino II
D) Giuseppe Garibaldi and Benito Mussolini
E) Ferdinand I and Prince Metternich
31. Cavour used the Siccardi Law and the Law on
Convents to
A) reduce the influence of the Catholic
Church in Piedmont
B) attract the support of the Austrian Empire
C) give Piedmont access into the Crimean
War
D) better his relationship with King Victor
Emmanuel II
E) show his distaste with the Syllabus of
Errors
32. Rome became the Italian capital after
A) French troops withdrew from the city
during the Franco–Prussian War
B) the creation of Italy in 1861
C) its liberation by Garibaldi
D) papal consent
E) Cavour acquired the city through
diplomatic channels
33. Beginning in 1871, the capital of Italy was
A) Rome
C) Milan
E) Venice
B) Palermo
D) Florence
34. Italy was able to acquire Rome in 1870 because
the
37. Base your answer on the picture below.
A) French troops protecting the city were sent
to the front of the Franco–Prussian War
B) pope wanted a unified Italy
C) Prussian troops were sent in to capture the
city
D) city's isolation from the rest of Italy caused
uncontainable riots
E) Romans voted in a plebiscite to become a
part of Italy
35. Italy was able to acquire Venetia in 1866
because of
A) its alliance with Prussia preceding the
German Civil War
B) diplomatic bartering with Austria
C) military conquest by Garibaldi
D) open rebellion in Venetia
E) an alliance with France against Prussia in
the Franco–Prussian War
36. When Victor Emmanuel II was crowned King
of Italy in 1861, his capital city was
A) Florence
C) Milan
E) Naples
B) Turin
D) Rome
As shown in the picture above, Garibaldi's role
in the Italian unification was as a
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
brilliant diplomat
patriotic guerrilla fighter
aristocratic general
persuasive orator
philosophical writer
38. Base your answer on the picture below.
The portrait above represents which British
Prime Minister?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
William Gladstone
Lord Palmerston
Robert Walpole
Benjamin Disraeli
Herbert Asquith
39. The implementation of Irish Home Rule
occurred during which time period?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
1881
1886
1903
1911
after World War I
40. Under Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish Party
A) successfully gained home rule
B) sided with Gladstone and the Labour Party
in the election of 1885
C) agitated for an Irish Republic devoid of
British authority
D) gradually lost its influence over English
political affairs
E) stubbornly refused to bargain with the two
main English political parties
41. Which of the following was hotly contested in
Great Britain in the 1880's?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Irish Home Rule
The Education Act
The Public Health Act
The agreement from the Berlin Conference
Bismarck's Kulturkampf
42. Pygmalion, a pre–World War I play about the
rise of a Cockney flower girl was written by
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
George Bernard Shaw
James Joyce
William Godwin
Pierre Proudhin
Beatrice Webb
43. All of the following legislation was passed in
Britain in 1875 through Disraeli's support
EXCEPT the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Land Act
Artisan's Dwelling Act
Public Health Act
Food and Drug Act
laws lessening the regulation of trade
unions
44. At the outset of World War I who was Great
Britain's Prime Minister?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone
45. Which political party gained increasing support
in Great Britain in the early twentieth century?
The
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Labor Party
Conservative Party
Liberal Party
Communist Party
Tory Party
46. While Prime Minister, William Gladstone
argued for
A)
B)
C)
D)
Irish Home Rule
British imperialism
British involvement in European affairs
further centralization of the British
government
E) conservative ideals
47. While Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli argued
for
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
the expansion of the British Empire
Irish Home Rule
liberal ideals
liberation of the British colonies
the extension of the franchise to women
48. The Sepoy Mutiny and the American Civil War
occurred during the ministry of
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Lord Palmerston
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone
Randolph Churchill
John Bright
49. The British government assumed responsibility
for establishing and running elementary schools
through the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Ballot Act
Education Act
Public Health Act
Artisan Dwelling Act
Reform Bill
50. Which of the following was passed while
Benjamin Disraeli was British Prime Minister?
The
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Reform Bill
Ballot Act
Civil Services Reform
Education Act
Land Act
51. Who advanced the argument that the British
system of government was superior to the
American system of government in 1867's English Constitution?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Walter Bagehot
Robert Southey
Thomas Carlyle
John Henry Newman
John Ruskin
52. The suffragettes gained significant attention in
Great Britain because
A) they used violent forms of protest
B) they were the first female political
organization
C) they convinced most men to accept female
suffrage
D) they were effective at galvanizing the
support of women
E) they combined political and economic
demands
53. The Reform Bills of 1832, 1867, and 1884–85
in Great Britain resulted in the
A) extension of the franchise and the
redistribution of seats in Parliament
B) elimination of child labor abuses
C) drastic curtailment of the power of the
House of Lords
D) addition of voting for all adults over 21
E) betterment of the economic situation of the
Irish
54. The Chartist movement in Great Britain
accomplished all of its aims EXCEPT
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
annual parliaments
the secret ballot
equal electoral districts
salaries for Parliament members
abolition of property requirements for
members of Parliament
55. Who established the Independent Labour Party
in 1893?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Keir Hardie
George Bernard Shaw
Benjamin Disraeli
William Gladstone
H.M. Hyndman
56. The Parliament Act of 1911provided that the
House of Lords
I. had no veto power over revenue bills
II. could only delay enactment of
non-revenue bills
III. could effectively veto non-revenue bills
IV. revenue bills approved by the House of
Commons automatically became law after being
sent to the House of Lords
A) I only
C) III only
E) I, IV
B) II only
D) I, II
57. French foreign policy under Napoleon III was
marked by all of the following EXCEPT
A) establishment of colonies in Africa and
Asia
B) ill-fated backing of Emperor Maxmilian in
Mexico
C) occupation in Algeria
D) alliances in the Crimean War
E) involvement in the Seven Weeks' War
58. What resulted from the rebuilding of Paris
during the 1850's and 1860's?
A) Destruction of much working-class
housing
B) Reduction of open spaces for recreation
C) Improvement of military fortifications
D) Prevention of urban popular uprisings
E) Concentration population in the central
area of the city
59. The Boulanger Affair
A) involved a failed coup by French minister
of war George Boulanger
B) strengthened the monarchist cause in
France
C) helped to place Napoleon in power
D) weakened the socialist movement in
France
E) followed the Dreyfus Affair as an
embarrassing scandal in France
60. An attempt to restore the monarchy in France
failed after the Franco–Prussian War because
A) of the rivalry between the Bourbon and
Orleans claimants to the throne
B) few people in France supported a
monarchy
C) German forces would not allow a
restoration of the monarchy
D) the Third Republic was quickly established
after the war
E) the Paris Commune would not allow the
restoration of the monarchy
61. Which nation's army suppressed the Paris
Commune?
A) France
C) Spain
E) Britain
B) Prussia
D) Austria
62. The Treaty of Turin between Sardinia and
France in 1860
I. transferred Nice and Savoy to France
II. pledged French support to Sardinia in the
event of war with Austria
III. abrogated the Treaty of Zurich
IV. arranged Sardinian annexation of Parma,
Modena, Romagna, and Tuscany
A) I, II
C) II, III
E) I, III, IV
B) I, IV
D) III, IV
63. The terms of the Truce of Villafranca were
clarified and finalized with the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Treaty of Zurich
Treaty of Frankfurt
Plombieres Agreement
Peace of Paris
Treaty of Adrianople
64. The Truce of Villafranca in 1859 was a(n)
A) secret peace signed by France and Austria
B) treaty of alliance between Sardinia and
France
C) treaty that ended Austrian occupation in
northern Italy
D) signed agreement at the behest of Cavour
E) enhancement of the influence of Sardinia in
Italian politics
65. After defeating the Austrians in the battles of
Magenta and Solferino, Napoleon III wavered
in his support of Sardinia for all of the
following reasons EXCEPT
A) Prussia mobilized and expressed sympathy
for Austria
B) revolution broke out in several northern
Italian states
C) the forcefulness of new Austrian military
efforts
D) the lack of public support in France
E) mounting criticism by the Pope against
France for fighting Catholic Austria
66. Which of the following apply to the Dreyfus
affair?
I. Dreyfus' Jewish background fueled
tremendous anti–Semitism.
II. Dreyfus was convicted of passing secret
information to the German army.
III. Much of the evidence against Dreyfus
was later proved to be forged.
IV. Dreyfus was imprisoned on Devil's
Island
A) I only
C) I, II
E) I, II, III, IV
B) II only
D) I, III, IV
67. Alfred Dreyfus was a
A) French military captain unjustly
imprisoned for treason
B) French General at the end of the 19th
Century
C) leading French politician during the Paris
Commune
D) noted French economist
E) leader of the Catholic Church in France in
the 1880's
68. The greatest trauma of the Third French
Republic was the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Dreyfus Affair
Boulanger Crisis
Paris Commune
Franco–Prussian War
Boer War
69. All of the following were positive reforms
during the reign of Napoleon III EXCEPT
A) movement toward free trade
B) improvement in the efficiency of the
economic system
C) public works programs
D) shift away from authoritarian government
E) abolition of censorship
70. Adolphe Thiers is noted for his
A) negotiating the Treaty of Frankfurt after
the Franco–Prussian War
B) fervent opposition against the policies of
Napoleon III
C) role in the Boulanger Crisis
D) service in the French Legion
E) leadership role in the Paris Commune
71. The Paris Commune
A) established Paris as a communal
government separate from the rest of
France
B) created a communist government in France
during the 1870's
C) succeeded the Third French Republic
D) gave rise to Napoleon III
E) was the brain-child of the National
Assembly
72. After the siege of Paris during the
Franco–Prussian War, the French government
moved temporarily to
A) Bordeaux
C) Nice
E) Orleans
B) Berlin
D) Lyons
73. Napoleon III was captured by German troops
during the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Battle of Sedan
Paris Commune
Battle of Koniggratz
Revolution of 1848
Boulanger Crisis
74. As Napoleon III continued his reign, France
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
relaxed social and economic restrictions
became more autocratic
continued to build up its armed forces
scrambled for African colonies
was increasingly embarrassed by the
Dreyfus Affair
75. All of the following statements about the Third
French Republic are correct EXCEPT it(s)
A) supported a more prominent position for
the Catholic Church in French society
B) stability was severely challenged by the
Dreyfus Affair, Panama Scandal, and
Boulanger Crisis
C) was established during the
Franco–Prussian War
D) existence was initially threatened by the
Paris Commune
E) provided for a republican form of
government through an 1875 constitution
76. The Paris Commune of 1871 resulted from the
A) chaos stemming from the Franco–Prussian
War
B) declaration of German unification
C) collapse of the French Third Republic
D) discord in France between Bonapartist and
Bourbon supporters
E) financial speculation in the Paris stock
market
77. The Boulanger Affair nearly destroyed the
French
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Third Republic
First Republic
Second Republic
First Empire
Second Empire
78. Napoleon III's "Liberal Empire"was an attempt
to
A) fashion a constitutional monarchy in the
final years of Napoleon III's reign
B) curry British favor for France's struggle
with Prussia
C) end the monarchy with a slow evolution
towards a republic
D) rebuild the aura of the French Empire
E) demonstrate France's military strength and
prowess relative to other nations
79. Louis Napoleon was Napoleon's
A) nephew
C) uncle
E) cousin
B) father
D) son
80. Who was elected French President in December,
1848?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Louis Napoleon
Louis Blanc
Alphonse de Lamartine
Francois Guizot
Louis Eugene Cavaignac
81. Denmark agreed to give up its claims to the
provinces of Shleswig–Holstein in the
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Treaty of Vienna
Treaty of Zurich
Treaty of Westphalia
Treaty of Paris
Peace of Prague