WESTERN CIVILIZATION Name

TEST #6_0F3

1. Greece fought for its independence in the 1820s. What country where they fighting in order to gain that independence?

a. Russia;

b. Turkey;

c. the Austrian Empire;

d. England.

2. Who was Emperor Napoleon II?

a. Jerome Bonaparte’s son;

b. Louis Napoleon’s son;

c. an imposter created by the Tsar of Russia to control France;

d. Napoleon’s son.

3. “Its beginning to happen!” The event Karl Marx was referring to was the Paris Commune. What is the “ITS”

a. the revolt of the liberal bourgeois;

b. the Restoration of the Monarchy;

c. the unification of Germany;

d. the world-wide uprising of the working people of Europe.

4. “Reform not revolution.” Best expresses the feeling of what leader? a. Napoleon Bonaparte;

b. Charles X;

c. William Gladstone;

d. Karl Marx.

5. During our debate this leader stressed “Order” and “No Change”. Who was he?

a. Tsar Alexander II;

b. Charles X;

c. Otto von Bismarck;

d. Karl Marx.

6. “Bloody Week” is associated with what event?

a. Revolutions of 1848;

b. the Paris Commune;

c. the unification of Germany;

d. the world-wide uprising of the working people of Europe.

7. All the following are true about the Congress of Vienna, EXCEPT

a. it was held in the capital city of Austria;

b. Metternich represented the Germans;

c. it was a peace treaty that finally ended the Napoleonic wars;

d. it completed its work in the year 1815.

8. Who was not at the Congress of Vienna?

a. Talleyrand

b. Metternich

c. Alexander II

d. Castlereagh

9. A major question facing the delegates to the Frankfurt Assembly was a. whether or not to adopt the Declaration of the Rights of the German people;

b. what the official national language of the proposed united Germany would be;

c. what to do with the old Holy Roman Emperor;

d. what the relationship of the Austrian empire to the proposed united Germany would be.

10. One of Napoleon III’s great legacies was

a. a newly redesigned and renovated Berlin;

b. France’s victory over Prussian the Franco-Prussian war

c. the development of the railroads, canals and other importaant industrial changes;

d. the emergence of democracy under the Third Republic

11. The Revolution of 1870 in France led to the

a. Third Republic

b. Second Republic

c. Third Empire

d. Second Empire.

12. A unified Germany was built around the nucleus of the kingdom of

a. Russia;

b. Austria;

c. Prussia;

d. Saxony.

13. Who said? “Not by speeches and majority votes are the great questions of the day decided- that was the great error of 1848 and 1849- but by blood and iron.”

a. Otto von Bismarck;

b. Karl Marx;

c. William Gladstone;

d. Klemens von Metternich.

14. Three of the following were direct or indirect results of the Franco-Prussian War. Which is the exception?

a. Prussia lost territory to France;

b. Bismarck became Chacellor of Germany;

c. King William of Prussia was proclaimed emperor of a united Germany;

d. Napoleon III feld to England.

15. Which name are associated with Karl Marx?

a. Nietzsche;

b. Bakunin;

c. Hegel;

d. Totterdam.

16. Karl Marx’s two great works were?

a. The Communist Manifesto and God, Glory, and Communism;

b. The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital;

b. The Communist Manifesto and The Theory of Surplus Value;

d. God, Glory and Communism and Proletariat Revolutions.

17. The Crimean War was fought in

a. France;

b. Russia;

c. Austria;

d. Spain.

18. Mr. Sidoli's stated that two of this era’s great events were to percolate or brew thru the period. What were they?

a. the English and French revolutions;

b. the Industrial and French revolutions;

c. the Industrial and English revolutions;

d. the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions.

19. Realpolitik is the idea that

a. power is good when used for good purposes;

b. whatever is real for a country’s religious policies is good for its military policies;

c. military power should never be used for diplomatic purposes;

c. a leader must always be moral in his views of foreign policy.

20. According to a famous historian Mr. Sidoli says , the Revolutions of l848 were a turning point in Western Civilization, where history:

a. turned left

b. turned right

c. failed to turn

d. did a u-turn

21. Which Pope reestablished the Ghetto wall in Rome in 1815?

a. Pius XII;

b. Paul II;

c. Sextus VI

d. Pius VII.

22- 30. Label the following personalities of the period by correctly identifying their political ideology. Use the following post-French Revolutionary doctrines to label them.

A - Counter-Revolutionary

B - Liberal

C - Conservative

D - Socialist

22.______ Metternich

23.______ William Gladstone

24.______ “Princess Hapsburg”

25.______ Louis Blanc

26.______ Alexander II

27.______ Otto von Bismarck

28.______ Charles X

29.______ Charles Maurras

30.______ Friedrich Engels

31. Which of the following countries did not experience revolution in 1848

a. Britain and Italy;

b. Hungary and Poland;

c. Britain and Russia;

d. Russian and France.

32. “I accuse the war office of having led a vile campaign in the press in order to misdirect public opinion and cover up its sins. I accuse the first court-martial of having violated all human rights in condemning a prisoner on testimony kept secret from him.”

14. The above quotations from Emile Zola was written to

a. charge the army with falsifying a case against Alfred Dreyfus; b. defend Napoleon at the Congress of Vienna;

c. protect the reputation of Napoleon III;

d. challenge the behavior of the French army during its defeat in the

Franco-Prussian War;

e. protest the trial of the Louis Dreyfus.

33. “The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles”

The quotation above is from

a. Robespierre;

b. Saint-Simon

c. Marx and Engels;

d. Malthus;

e. Bismarck.

34. What is true of the 1815 peace settlement commonly called the Congress of Vienna?

a. It kept Europe at peace for a decade at most;

b. France was divided into many smaller regions;

c. Italy was united as a country;

d. the equilibrium made possible a century long European peace.

35. Which force was behind the Revolution of 1848 in France?

a. the Army;

b. Napoleon II;

c. the middle class;

d. the students.

36-40. Place in the correct order:

36 A. Paris Commune

37 B. Napoleon III starts Franco-Prussian War

38 C. Dreyfus

39 D. Congress of Vienna

40 E. Revolutions of l848

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41-45. Place in the correct order:

41. A. Unification of Germany

42. B. Franco-Prussian War

43. C. French Second Republic begins

44. D. Congress of Vienna

45. E. Alexander II begins his reign

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WHO AM I ??

46. I WAS ONE OF THE TWO GUYS WHO PLAYED THE METTERNICH. ONE OF US HAS A GREAT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AUSTRIAN ACCENT.

I AM _______________________________ .

47. I WAS A BAD BOY AS A YOUNG MAN. I DIDN’T DO MY HOMEWORK IN SCHOOL. I SPENT TOO MUCH OF MY TIME CAROUSING WITH MY FRIENDS. WHEN I FINALLY DID FINISH SCHOOL I WAS SENT TO ST. PETERSBURG AS A DIPLOMAT. I WAS CALLED BACK TO SETTLE A BUDGET DISPUTE IN MY COUNTRY’S LEGISLATURE. I RULED THRU “BLOOD AND IRON.”

I AM _______________________________ .

48. WHEN I RAN FOR PRESIDENT OF MY COUNTRY NO ONE THOUGHT I WOULD WIN. THEY SAID OF ME THAT I WAS NOT A GOOD SPEAKER, OR VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE AFFAIRS OF MY COUNTRY. BUT I WON AND THEN I REBUILT MY CAPITAL. WHEN I ENDED THE REPUBLIC AND CREATED AN EMPIRE I RESTORED MY NATION TO ITS GREAT PAST.

I AM _______________________________ .

49. I WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. MY AIM THERE WAS TO STAMP OUT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ALL IT STOOD FOR. IN MY NATIVE AUSTRIA I WAS TO RULE AS PRIME MINSTER UNTIL THE

REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 WHEN I HAD TO FLEE.

I AM _______________________________ .

50. I WAS PART OF THE RESTORATION. IN 1815, MY BROTHER, LOUIS XVIII WAS BROUGHT BACK FROM EXILE AND MADE KING OF FRANCE. I BECAME KING AFTER HIM. I FELT MY BROTHER HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD THE NEED FOR RESTORATION AND ORDER WE MONARCHS REPRESENT.

I AM _______________________________