Q 1 – . Identify the correct statement with regard to The Act of Union (1707) from the following options.
(A) The British monarchy surrendered the power to English Parliament.
(B) The British Parliament seized power from Ireland.
(C) The formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’.
(D) The British nation was formed as a result of a war with Scotland and Wales.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 2 – Which of the following treaty recognized Greece as an independent nation?
(A) Treaty of Sevres
(B) Treaty of Versailles
(C) Treaty of Lausanne
(D) Treaty of Constantinople
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Q 3 – Study the picture and answer the question that follows :
Which of the following aspect best signifies this image of Germania”?
(A) Heroism and Justice
(B) Folk and Cultural Tradition
(C) Austerity and Asceticism
(D) Revenge and Vengeance
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Q 4 – Which of the following revolutions is called as the first expression of ‘Nationalism’ ?
(A) French Revolution
(B) Russian Revolution
(C) Glorious Revolution
(D) The Revolution of the liberals
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Q 5 – Which among the following best signifies the idea of liberal nationalism of nineteenth century Europe?
(A) Emphasis on social justice
(B) State planned socio-economic system
(C) Freedom for individual and equality before law
(D) Supremacy of State oriented nationalism.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 6 – Who said ” When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold”?
(A) Garibaldi
(B) Mazzini
(C) Bismarck
(D) Metternich
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Q 7 – Who among the following formed the secret society called Young Italy’?
(A) Otto Von Bismarck
(B) Giuseppe Mazzini
(C) Johann Gottfried Herder
(D) Duke Metternich
Ans. Option (B) is Correct.
Q 8 – Study the following picture and answer :
Who is represented as a postman in the given image?
(A) Giuseppe Mazzini
(B) Otto von Bismarck
(C) Napoleon Bonaparte
(D) Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 9 – Which of the following countries is considered as the ‘Cradle of civilisation‘?
(A) England
(B) Greece
(C) France
(D) Russia
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
Q 10 –Which of the following option best signifies this caricature?
(A) Otto von Bismarck in the Germen Reichastag (parliament)
(B) Victor Emmanuel II in the Italian parliament
(C) Kaise William II in the Prussian parliament
(D) Napolean Bonaparte in French parliament
Ans. option (A) is Correct.
Q 11 –Which one of the following states was ruled by an Italian princely house before unification of Italy?
(A) Eombardy
(B) Kingdom of Two Sicilies
(C) Venetia
(D) Sardinia – Piedmont
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Q 12 – Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) Treaty of Constantinople
(ii) First upheaval took place in France
(iii) Lord Byron died
(iv) Greek Struggle for independence begins Option :
(A) (i) – (ii) – (iii) – (iv)
(B) (ii)- (iv) – (i) – (iii)
(C) (iv) – (iii) – (ii) – (i)
(D) (iii) – (iv) -(ii) – (i)
Ans. Option (C) is correct
Q 13 – Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options:
While it is easy enough to represent a ruler through a portrait or a statue, how does one go about giving a face to a nation? Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found a way out by personifying a nation. In other words, they represented a country as if it were a person.
(A) Portrait of a nation
(B) Idol of a nation
(C) Personification of a nation
(D) Visualising a nation
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Q 14 – Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options:
He was perhaps the most celebrated of Italian freedom fighters. He came from a family engaged in coastal trade and was a sailor in the merchant navy. In 1833, he met Mazzini, joined the Young Italy Movement and participated in a Republican uprising in Piedmont in 1834.
(A) Otto von Bismarck
(B) Giuseppe Mazzini
(C) Count Camillio de Cavour
(D) Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Q 15 – Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) During the years following 1815, the fear of repression drove many liberal-nationalists underground.
(B) Secret Societies sprang up in many Indian states to train revolutionaries and spread their ideas.
(C) To be a revolutionary at this time meant a commitment to oppose monarchical forms that had bean established after the Vienna Congress, and to fight for liberty and freedom.
(D) Most of these revolutionaries also saw the creation of nation states as a necessary part of this struggle for freedom.
Ans. Option (B) is correct.’
Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.
Q 16 – Assertion (A) : Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian General, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.
Reason (R) : He was the architect in the process of nation – building.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 17 – Assertion (A) : A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Reason (R) : The spread of the ideas of Romantic Nationalism in the Balkans together with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire made this region very explosive.
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Q 18 – Assertion (A) : The French Revolution was an influential event that marked the age of revolutions in Europe.
Reason (R) : The French Revolution transferred the sovereignty from the people to the monarch.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 19 – Assertion (A) : Serfdom and bonded labour were abolished both in the Habsburg dominions and in Russia
Reason (R) : Monarchs were beginning to realise that the cydes of revolution and repression could only be ended by granting concessions to the liberal-nationalist revolutionaries.
Ans. Option (A) is correct
Q 20 – Assertion (A) : The Scottish Highlands suffered terrible repression whenever they attempted to assert their independence.
Reason (R) : Catholic revolts against British dominance were suppressed
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
Q 21 – Assertion (A) : Italy and Switzerland were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories.
Reason (R) : They were closely bound to each other inspite of their autonomous rule.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 22 – Assertion (A) : On 18 May 1848, 831 elected representatives revolted in the Frankfurt parliament.
Reason (R) : The parliament was dominated by the middle classes who resisted the demands of workers and lost their support.
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Q 23 – Assertion (A) : Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics frightened the conservatives.
Reason (R) : Metternich described Maz,zini as ‘the most dangerous enemy of social order’.
Ans. Option (A) is correct
Q 24 –Find the incorrect option from the following:
(B) The Bourbon Kings who had been restored to power during the conservative reaction after 1815, were now overthrown by liberal revolutionaries who installed a constitutional monarchy with Louis Philippe at its head.
(C) When America sneezes’ Metternich once remarked, ‘ the rest of Europe catches cold.’
(D) The July Revolution sparked an uprising in Brussels which led to Belgium breaking away from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
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. Most conservatives, however, did not propose a return to the society of pre- revolutionary days. Rather, they realised, from the changes initiated by Napoleon, that modernisation could in fact strengthen traditional institutions like the monarchy. It could make state’s power more effective and stronger. A modern army, an efficient bureaucracy, a dynamic economy, the abolition of feudalism and serfdom could strengthen the autocratic monarchies of Europe. In 1815, representatives of the European powers who had collectively defeated Napoleon, met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for Europe. The Congress was hosted by the Austrian Chancellor Duke Metternich. The delegates drew up the Treaty of Vienna of 1815 with the object of undoing most of the changes that had come about in Europe during the Napoleonic wars. The Bourbon dynasty, which had been deposed during the French Revolution, was restored to power, and France lost the territories it had annexed under Napoleon. A series of states were set up on the boundaries of France to prevent French expansion in future.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option.
Q 25 – Which of the following statement correctly describes about European conservative ideology?
(A) Preservation of beliefs introduced by Napoleon.
(B) Preservation of two sects of Christianity.
(C) Preservation of socialist ideology in economic sphere.
(D) Preservation of traditionalist beliefs in state and society
Ans. Option (D) is correct
Q 26 – Identify the purpose to convene the Congress of Vienna in 1815 from the following options.
(A) To declare competition of German unification.
(B) To restore conservative regime in Europe.
(C) To declare war against France.
(D) To start the process of Italian Unification.
Ans. Option (B) is correct
Q 27 – What did conservatives focus on at the Congress of Vienna? Select the appropriate option.
(A) To re-establish peace and stability in Europe.
(B) To establish socialism in Europe.
(C) To introduce democracy in France.
(D) To set up a new Parliament in Austria
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Q 28 – How did the Congress of Vienna ensure peace in Europe? Select the appropriate option.
(A) With the restoration of Bourbon Dynasty
(B) Austria was not given the control of Northern Italy
(C) Laying out a balance of power between all the great powers in Europe
(D) By giving power to the German confederation
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
One such individual was the Italian revolutionary, Giuseppe Mazzini. Born in Genoa in 1807, he became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari. As a young man of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting a revolution in Liguria. He subsequently founded two more underground societies, first, Young Italy in Marseilles, and then, Young Europe in Berne, whose members were like-minded young men from Poland, France, Italy and the German states. Mazzini believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind. So Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms. It had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations. This unification alone could be the basis of Italian liberty. Following his model, secret societies were set up in Germany, France, Switzerland and Poland. Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics frightened the conservatives. Metternich described him as ‘the most dangerous enemy of our social order’.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option.
Q 29 – Where was Giuseppe Mazzini born?
(A) Berne
(B) Paris
(C) Genoa
(D) Liguria
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 30 – Giuseppe Mazzini was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting a revolution in
(A) Genoa
(B) Liguria
(C) Poland
(D) Marseilles
Ans. Option (B) is correct
Q 31 – Who described Mazzini as ‘the most dangerou enemy of our social order’?
(A) Bismarck
(B) Cavour
(C) Metternich
(D) Garibaldi
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 32 – Which of the following societies was founded in Berne?
(A) Young Europe
(B) Young Germany
(C) Young Italy
(D) Young Britain
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Read the source given below and answer thl questions that follows
Like Germany, Italy too had a long history o political fragmentation. Italians were scattere over several dynastic states as well as the multi national Habsburg Empire. During the middle o the nineteenth century, Italy was divided into sevel states, of which only one, Sardinia-Piedmont, wa ruled by an Italian princely house. The north wa under Austrian Habsburgs, the centre was rule( by the Pope and the southern regions were unde the domination of the Bourbon kings of Spain Even the Italian language had not acquired on g common form and still had many regional and local variations.
Q 33 – During mid-19th century, Italy was divided into____________ states.
(A) six
(B) seven
(C) eight
(D) nine
Ans. Option (B) is correct
Q 34 – Which of the following part of Italy was ruled by an Italian princely house?
(A) Rome
(B) Venetia
(B) Lombardy
(D) Sardinia-Piedmont
Ans. Option (D) is correct.
Q 35 – Who dominated the south regions of Italy?
(A) Pope
(B) Bourbon Kings of Spain
(C) Austrian Habsburgs
(D) Bourbon Kings of France
Ans. Option (B) is correct.
Q 36 – Besides Italy, which of the following nation had a long history of political fragmentation?
(A) Germany
(B) Britain
(C) USA
(D) Japan
Ans. Option (A) is correct.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option.
Q 37 – Who formed a secret society called ‘Young Italy’?
(A) Giuseppe Mazzini
(B) Giuseppe Garibaldi
(C) Otto Von Bismarck
(D) Victor Emmanuel II
Ans. Option (A) is correct
Q 38 – Who led the movement to unify the regions of Italy?
(A) Napoleon Bonaparte
(B) Kaiser William II
(C) Chief Minister Cavour
(D) Chief Minister Otto Von Bismarck
Ans. Option (C) is correct.
Q 39 – Who proclaimed himself as the king of united Italy?
(A) La Talia
(B) Giuseppe Garibaldi
(C) Sardinia
(D) Victor Emmanuel II
Ans. Option (D) is correct.