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CH. 22 (and a LOT of review) QUEST

Please select the option that BEST answers the question. Each question is worth
two (2) points and you will have twenty (20) minutes to complete the test. Good
Luck!!!
1) The Concert of Europe promoted which of the following ideas?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

A balance of decentralized power across Europe

A promotion of conservative, autocratic rule
A promotion of liberal and nationalistic ideas
A continuation of the pre-Napoleonic economic ideas
A balance of power based on Russian hegemony

*2) The Concert of Europe was hesitant to support the Greek Independence
movement because
a)
b)
c)
d)

It could potentially defeat the Ottomans.

It would represent a shift in the balance of power toward Austria.
It could result in a growth of power for the Ottomans.
It was fueled by ideological ideas that were anathema to the
Concert.
e) It was founded upon different religious ideas than the Concert supported.
3) The ideological ideas expressed above in option d were
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Constitutionalism and Conservatism

Liberalism and Nationalism
Nationalism and Socialism
Socialism and Liberalism
Liberalism and Conservatism

4) The Concert of Europe had many supplementary congresses and treaties that
did not include which of the following?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Paris
Verona
Troppau
Ghent
Vienna

5) Overall, the actions of the Concert of Europe could be classified as

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Conservative
Liberal
Constitutional
Despotic
Reactionary

6) A central feature of the Catholic Reformation was the

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a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Roman Catholic Churchs inability to correct abuses

establishment of new religious orders, such as the Jesuits
transfer of authority from Rome to the bishoprics
rejection of Baroque art
toleration of Protestants in Roman Catholic countries

7) Which of the following was an outcome of the settlement at the Congress of

Vienna (18141815)?
a) The restoration to power of many of the dynasties deposed by the
French
Revolution and by Napoleon I
b) The division of Europe based on the principle of aligning territorial
boundaries with the national sentiments of the inhabitants
c) The award of overseas colonial territories to several countries that made
significant contributions to the defeat of Napoleon I
d) The recognition of the right of a people to choose whom they would accept
as their lawful ruler
e) The creation of a unified German state through the reestablishment of the
Holy Roman Empire
*8) Utopian Socialism, as espoused by Count Claude Henri Saint-Simon (17601825), involved all of the following EXCEPT
a) Societies should be studied the same way any scientific study was
conducted
b) An oppression of the many by the select few in political and
economic power
c) A Supreme Council should be created to promote socialist equality
d) A state sanctioned and operated system to maintain equality in society
e) The organization of society should be based on empirical science
9) The Welshman Robert Owen (1771-1858) believed which of the following was
necessary to promote a safe, happy and successful factory
a) Elite, exclusionary education
b) Good, fair wages
c) Public sale of alcohol, especially gin
d) Factory run organization of communists
e) Long weekends devoted to prayer
*10) In what way was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) an influence upon
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels(1820-1895)?
a) He demonstrated the necessity of workers uniting under one ideology
opposed to management
b) He taught future historians that history was an unconnected series of events
c) He hypothesized that labor and management would and could co-exist in
unions
d) He believed there existed a rational order to human development

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e) He attacked the premise of nationalism as a tool of the workers used against
management
11) The two opposing camps the world was increasingly breaking up into, according
to Marx and Engels were the
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Bourgeoisie and workers

Proletariat and bourgeoisie
Bourgeoisie and bourgeois
Proletariat and workers
Proletariat and management

12) Marx and Engels argued that

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

all of history is the history of social class struggle.

all of history is the history of economic class struggle.
all of history is the history of class struggle.
all of history is the history of labor struggle.
all of history is the history of socio-economic class struggle.

13) Marx and Engels would argue that

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Labor was the measure of value of all goods

Market prices were just
Natural prices were an economic fabrication
Profits were the property of the owners of the means of production
The means of production are property of owners of factories

*14) Charles Fourier (1772-1837) believed that society was a

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Positive force upon people, freeing them from their savage past
Negative influence that brought peasants into constant war with each other
Negative influence that repressed peoples passions
Positive influence upon the masses due to the positive economic results
Negative influence upon people due to the unrestrained freedoms involved.

15) Socialism is generally in favor of all of the following EXCEPT:

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Free markets
Public property
Working class empowerment
Fair wages
Shared profits from labor

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16) According to Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) the life of the volk
would
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Lead to a nationalistic outpouring that would unite Germany

Attain a true culture from shared, native roots
Promote Prussian militaristic unification of Germany
Allow a grossdeutsch to grow out of the ashes of the Holy Roman Empire
Lead to a decentralized Germanic nation-state led by Austria

17) Romanticism spread across Europe as an answer to

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

new impressionist thought.

the Enlightenments emphasis on reason.
the Renaissance reliance on humanism.
the overflow of emotions from the time period.
the militaristic attitudes of Europe.

*18) Poets William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) wanted to
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Free poets from the emotional prose of the day

Allow poets to express their love of nationalism
Free poets from the formal rules of pervious poetry
Require poets to follow strict guidelines.
Allow poets to utilize Enlightened ideas of reason and empiricism

19) The Chartists of England believed that

a) Universal suffrage for men and women was essential in society
b) Pay for members of Parliament would open up elected offices to all
classes
c) Regular meetings of Parliament were unimportant
d) Exclusivity within government was essential to further English hegemony of
Europe
e) The oligarchical system of English government was beneficial to all classes
20) The Corn Laws of 1815 led to
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Fairer prices for corn across England

More representation of lower classes with Parliament
A loss of profits for Aristocrats in England
The Battle of Peterloo
A resurgence of Catholic sentiment across England

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21) Mercantilism was based on all of the following ideas EXCEPT
a)
b)
c)
d)

A nations wealth was measured by its accumulation of precious metals

That a nations wealth would be increased by a favorable balance of trade.
That war was a natural state of affairs between nations
That a nations accumulated gold and silver was needed to build a navy and
to equip a standing army
e) That government should not regulate or interfere with a nations
economy
22) Which was not a significant factor in the development of science during the
fifteenth and sixteenth-centuries?
a)
b)
c)
d)

The Renaissance
Scientific writings of the ancient Greeks
The Protestant Reformation
Roman Catholic emphasis on an appeal to authority in intellectual
matters
e) Experience of direct observation

23) The painting above is a gathering of notable writers and thinkers in order to
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Plan a new constitution for their country

Evaluate different paintings being displayed
Observe the latest fashions in clothing
Debate the current state of European militarism
Discuss important philosophical issues

24) All of the following can be said of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment except

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a) The Newtonian Revolution of the previous century set it in motion
b) It was based on the belief that unchangeable natural laws governed human
society
c) It supported the assumption that human reason could fathom the natural
laws
d) It reflected acceptance of social inequalities an injustice as
inevitable effects of natural law
e) It was optimistic and progress oriented
25) William and Marys ascension to the throne in 1689
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Restricted the rights of Parliament to raise taxes

Nullified the Declaration of Rights
Was founded on the divine-right theory
Indicated the supremacy of Parliament
Restored the Tudor dynasty

26) The Magyars were a minority ethnic group within which empire in the late 1700s
and 1800s?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Russian
Austrian
Prussian
French
Ottoman

27) The implementation of these by Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859),

demonstrates the conservative aim of the members of the Quadruple Alliance and
Congress of Vienna
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

The First Treaty of Paris

The Second Treaty of Paris
The German Confederation
The Carlsbad Decrees
The Holy Alliance

*28) The biggest influence of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) upon Marx and
Engels was his theories on
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Wealth and industrial production

Property rights of individuals
Socialistic societies reliance on women
Communist order of society
Philosophical empiricism

29) The Six Acts of 1819 in England were a response to what act and avidly opposed
to what idea, respectively?

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a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Napoleon and nationalism

The Congress of Vienna and liberalism
The Corn Laws and nationalism
The Battle of Peterloo and liberalism
The suicide of Robert Castlereagh and socialism

30) The map above correctly labels all territorial changes after the Congress of
Vienna except for
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

The Kingdom of Sardinia

The French Empire
The Russian Empire
The German Confederation
Kingdom of Prussia