MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Medical care for soldiers in the Crimean War was phenomenal. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Tennyson's poem referring to the "Light Brigade" chronicled the horrors of which war? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Crimean War
Bismarck used the Spanish offer of a throne to a member of the Hohenzollern family as an opportunity
to trick France into war. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
In the 1850s, nationalism proved itself to be the strongest political force in Europe, much stronger than
either liberalism or conservatism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Which of the following was a major effect of nationalism during the nineteenth century? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅All
The British North American Act united Canada into a single nation with its own constitution in 1867. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
As his first step towards unifying Germany, Bismarck immediately declared war on Austria. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
Canadian nationalists initiated a rebellion for independence from which nation in 1837? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Great Britain
Napoleon III - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅built hospitals, nurseries, and homes for the aged, and rebuilt Paris
into a modern city.
Florence Nightingale gained fame - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅for her success nursing British wounded in
the Crimean War.
,As part of his effort to unify Germany, Bismarck - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅waged popular and successful
wars against Austria and France.
Napoleon III granted universal male suffrage during the Second Empire. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅true
How did German chancellor Bismarck seek to convince the southern German states to join the growing
Prussian state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅by initiating a war with France
The major issue that divided North and South in the United States was whether to - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅curtail or eliminate slavery.
In the aftermath of the 1866 defeat by Prussia, Germans in Austria allied with the Czechs to curtail the
autonomous aspirations of the Hungarians. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Although large and populous, the Kingdom of Naples was easily conquered by the Italian nationalist
Garibaldi with an army of only a thousand armed civilian adventurers. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
The North German Confederation created by Bismarck after the Austro-Prussian War had a legislature
elected by universal male suffrage. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When Alexander II of Russia decreed freedom for the serfs, he ensured that they received generous
amounts of land. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Otto von Bismarck, the unifier of Germany, was a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prussian aristocrat who
united Germany around Prussia.
The immediate occasion for Bismarck becoming prime minister was - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a major
political deadlock between William I of Prussia and the Prussian legislature.
Florence Nightingale gained fame for nursing wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
, Two central and southern European states that suffered from potential disintegration because of the
problems of nationalism were - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
It can be argued that the downfall of Napoleon III came about especially because of his overly
adventurous foreign policy. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Prior to the Civil War in the United States, the South depended more and more upon what as its primary
economic staple? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅agriculture
Dual Monarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Compromise that united Austria and Hungary
Otto Van Bismarck (Germany) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pro-unification German chancellor
autocracy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rule by one person
Reichstag - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅German legislature
Camilio di Cavour - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pro-unification Italian prime minister
Great Reforms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social and political reforms undertaken by Alexander I
Realpolitik - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Policy of political realism
Second Empire - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Regime of Napoleon III
1861 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Date of Italian unification
1870 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Date of Franco-Prussian War
Medical care for soldiers in the Crimean War was phenomenal. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Tennyson's poem referring to the "Light Brigade" chronicled the horrors of which war? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Crimean War
Bismarck used the Spanish offer of a throne to a member of the Hohenzollern family as an opportunity
to trick France into war. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
In the 1850s, nationalism proved itself to be the strongest political force in Europe, much stronger than
either liberalism or conservatism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Which of the following was a major effect of nationalism during the nineteenth century? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅All
The British North American Act united Canada into a single nation with its own constitution in 1867. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
As his first step towards unifying Germany, Bismarck immediately declared war on Austria. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False
Canadian nationalists initiated a rebellion for independence from which nation in 1837? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Great Britain
Napoleon III - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅built hospitals, nurseries, and homes for the aged, and rebuilt Paris
into a modern city.
Florence Nightingale gained fame - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅for her success nursing British wounded in
the Crimean War.
,As part of his effort to unify Germany, Bismarck - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅waged popular and successful
wars against Austria and France.
Napoleon III granted universal male suffrage during the Second Empire. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅true
How did German chancellor Bismarck seek to convince the southern German states to join the growing
Prussian state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅by initiating a war with France
The major issue that divided North and South in the United States was whether to - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅curtail or eliminate slavery.
In the aftermath of the 1866 defeat by Prussia, Germans in Austria allied with the Czechs to curtail the
autonomous aspirations of the Hungarians. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Although large and populous, the Kingdom of Naples was easily conquered by the Italian nationalist
Garibaldi with an army of only a thousand armed civilian adventurers. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
The North German Confederation created by Bismarck after the Austro-Prussian War had a legislature
elected by universal male suffrage. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
When Alexander II of Russia decreed freedom for the serfs, he ensured that they received generous
amounts of land. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
Otto von Bismarck, the unifier of Germany, was a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prussian aristocrat who
united Germany around Prussia.
The immediate occasion for Bismarck becoming prime minister was - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a major
political deadlock between William I of Prussia and the Prussian legislature.
Florence Nightingale gained fame for nursing wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
, Two central and southern European states that suffered from potential disintegration because of the
problems of nationalism were - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
It can be argued that the downfall of Napoleon III came about especially because of his overly
adventurous foreign policy. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Prior to the Civil War in the United States, the South depended more and more upon what as its primary
economic staple? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅agriculture
Dual Monarchy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Compromise that united Austria and Hungary
Otto Van Bismarck (Germany) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pro-unification German chancellor
autocracy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rule by one person
Reichstag - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅German legislature
Camilio di Cavour - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pro-unification Italian prime minister
Great Reforms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social and political reforms undertaken by Alexander I
Realpolitik - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Policy of political realism
Second Empire - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Regime of Napoleon III
1861 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Date of Italian unification
1870 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Date of Franco-Prussian War
