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1. The term absolutist is referred to:
Abstract theory
None of these
A vision
Monarchical government
Answer - D
Explanation - Absolutist literally means a government or system of rule that has no restraints on the power exercised. In history, the term refers to a form of monarchical government that was centralised, militarized, and repressive.
2. When and who prepared a series of four prints visualising a world of democratic and social Republics?
None of these
1804, Napoleon
1815, Duke Metternich
1848, Frederic Sorrieu
Answer - D
Explanation - In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’, as he called them.
3. What do the saints, angels, and Christ symbolise in the utopian vision?
Freedom of nations
Resentment against nations
Equality among people
Fraternity among nations
Answer - D
Explanation - In a utopian vision, Christ, saints, and angels gaze upon the scene from the heavens above. They have been used by the artist to symbolise fraternity among the nations of the world.
4. When did Napoleon invade Italy?
1821
1905
1795
1797
Answer - D
Explanation - In 1797 ,Napoleon invaded Italy and also Napoleonic wars begin.
5. What territories did the Habsburg Empire rule over?
Romania
Austria
Hungary
Both Austria and Hungary
Answer - D
Explanation - Today's Germany, Italy and Switzerland were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories.The Habsburg Empire that ruled over Austria-Hungary, for example, was a patchwork of many different regions and peoples.
6. In revolutionary France, who were granted exclusive rights to vote?
Property-owning men
Property-owning women
All women
All men
Answer - A
Explanation - France, which marked the first political experiment in a liberal democracy, the right to vote and to get elected was granted exclusively to property-owning men. Men without property and all women were excluded from political rights.
7. Why was the Treaty of Vienna drawn up in 1815?
None of these
To restore the monarchies
To abolish tariff barriers
To divide the German Confederation of 39 states
Answer - B
Explanation - Treaty of Vienna of 1815 with the object of undoing most of the changes that had come about in Europe during the Napoleonic wars. (i.e. to restore the monarchies)
8. When were the Conservatives Regimes set up?
1820
1815
1832
1830
Answer - B
Explanation - Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, European governments were driven by a spirit of conservatism. Conservatives believed that established, traditional institutions of state and society – like the monarchy, the Church, social hierarchies, property, and the family should be preserved.
9. What major issue was criticised by the liberal nationalists?
Preservation of the Church
A modern arm
Efficient bureaucracy
Censorship laws to control the press
Answer - D
Explanation - One of the major issues taken up by the liberal-nationalists, who criticised the new conservative order, was freedom of the press.
10. Name the Italian revolutionary from Genoa.
Metternich
Giuseppe Mazzini
Johann Gottfried
None of these
Answer - B
Explanation - Giuseppe Mazzini was born in Genoa in 1807, he became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari. He was an Italian revolutionary.
11. Who said, "When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold"?
Metternich
Lord Byron
T S Eliot
Giuseppe
Answer - A
Explanation - When France sneezes, Metternich once remarked, ‘the rest of Europe catches a cold. The July Revolution sparked an uprising in Brussels which led to Belgium breaking away from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
12. In history, which term refers to a form of monarchical government that was centralised, militarised, and repressive.
Communalist
Despotic
Absolutist
Democratic
Answer - C
Explanation - Absolutist - Literally, a government or system of rule that has no restraints on the power exercised. In history, the term refers to a form of monarchical government that was centralised, militarized, and repressive.
13. In 1848, Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ________.
democratic and social republics
majority and minority
communal-it and social republics
absolutist and democratic
Answer - A
Explanation - In 1848, Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’.
14. The print of The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics was prepared by whom?
Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Giuseppe Mazzini
Frédéric Sorrieu
Answer - D
Explanation - In 1848, Frédéric Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’.
15. Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified ________ as a female figure.
liberty
confinement
law
Enlightenment
Answer - A
Explanation - Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified Liberty as a female figure.
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