CHAPTER 1 - Nationalism in Europe (HISTORY SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASS 10)

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. What did the Civil Code of 1804 bring about?

A. Right by birth to all facilities of state
B. did away with all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law and secured the right to property.
C. no right to property
D. No right to equality

2. Which regions was the Civil Code exported to?
A. Switzerland and Italy
B. Italy and Germany
C. Switzerland and Germany
D Dutch Republic, in Switzerland, in Italy and Germany

3.  What did Napoleon do in the rural areas of those regions he occupied?
A. simplified administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial due
B. made administration strict
C. encouraged the feudal system
D. put taxes on the peasants

4. What changes did Napoleon bring about in the towns?
A. guild restrictions were removed. Transport and communication systems were improved. Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen enjoyed a newfound freedom.
B. Transport and communication systems were improved.
C. Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen had to pay tax
D. guild restrictions remained as they were

5. In mid-eighteenth-century Europe what was the status of Germany, Italy and Switzerland?
A. they were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories
B. they were sovereign states
C. they were democracies
D they were republics

6. When did Napoleon invade Italy?
A. 1777
B.1797
C. 1787
D 1767

7.Which territories were included under the Habsburg Empire?
A. Alpine regions – the Tyrol, Austria Hungry and the Sudetenland ,Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia
B. Tyrol, Austria and the Sudetenland
C. Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia
D. Sudetenland , Bohemia, Lombardy

8. Which regions was the Civil Code exported to?
A. Switzerland and Italy
B. Italy and Germany
C. Switzerland and Germany
D Dutch Republic, in Switzerland, in Italy and Germany

9. What did Napoleon do in the rural areas of those regions he occupied?
A. simplified administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and   manorial due
B. made administration strict
C. encouraged the feudal system
D. put taxes on the peasants

10. What changes did Napoleon bring about in the towns?
A. guild restrictions were removed. Transport and communication systems were improved. Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen enjoyed a newfound freedom.
B. Transport and communication systems were improved.
C. Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen had to pay tax
D. guild restrictions remained as they were

11. In mid-eighteenth-century Europe what was the status of Germany, Italy and  Switzerland?
A. they were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories
B. they were sovereign states
C. they were democracies
D they were republics

12. When did Industrialisation take place in France and parts of the German states?
A. 18th century
B later 18th century
C. nineteenth century
D. mid 18th century

13.What is Liberalism?
A. ‘liberalism’ derives from the Latin root liber, meaning free- freedom for the individual and equality of all before the law.
B. end of autocracy
C. equal rules for all
D. liberty to the upper classes

14What is Suffrage?

A. Right to property
B. Right to Justice
C. Right to vote
D. Right to complain

15.In revolutionary France, the right to vote and to get elected was granted exclusively to ………….

A. property-owning men
B. all
C. Men and women
D. upper class

16. A merchant travelling in 1833 from Hamburg to Nuremberg to sell his goods would have had to pass through ……………….

A. 11 customs barriers
B. no custom barriers
C. 6 custom barriers
D. 3 custom barriers

17. When was the custom union or zollverein formed at the initiative of Prussia and joined by most of the German states?

A. 1836
B. 1834
C. 1837
D 1835

18. What did the customs union or zollverein do?

A. abolished tax
B. abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to Two
C. abolished tariff charges and reduced the currencies to 5
D.only abolished tariff barriers

19. When was Napoleon defeated?

A. 1815
B. 1820
C. 1817
D. 1821