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1

The Congress of Vienna presented France with a harsh peace settlement to punish the country for Napoleon’s wars. _____
A)True
B)False
2

The four main powers at the Congress of Vienna agreed in principle to end the slave trade. _____
A)True
B)False
3

Conservatives championed the ideals of the Enlightenment and revolutionary change. _____
A)True
B)False
4

Liberalism was primarily the ideology of the middle classes, which, in spite of their economic strength, lacked political and social power in the traditional order. _____
A)True
B)False
5

According to the policy of laissez-faire, governments should actively regulate the market through legislation. _____
A)True
B)False
6

The majority of early liberals did not embrace democracy because they hoped to keep government power in the hands of the propertied. _____
A)True
B)False
7

As nationalism produced a new sense of community, it prompted calls for national liberation. _____
A)True
B)False
8

The works of Rousseau, an Enlightenment thinker, were antithetical to the ideology of Romanticism. _____
A)True
B)False
9

Religious mysticism was a central element of romanticism. _____
A)True
B)False
10

Romanticism was really only associated with the ideology of nationalism. _____
A)True
B)False
11

Marx and Engels were the first European socialists. _____
A)True
B)False
12

Flora Tristan was one of several French women who linked demands for socialist reforms with women’s emancipation. _____
A)True
B)False
13

Marx considered nineteenth century industrial society to be the bourgeois epoch. _____
A)True
B)False
14

Austria was a nationally and linguistically homogeneous state. _____
A)True
B)False
15

Russia’s tsar Nicholas I, one of the main defenders of conservatism in Europe, crushed an uprising of the liberal Novembrists in 1825. _____
A)True
B)False
16

Through the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, Britain finally allowed Roman Catholics to serve in Parliament. _____
A)True
B)False
17

The first European country to grant universal male suffrage was Britain. _____
A)True
B)False
18

The Irish potato famine was made worse by liberals’ refusal to involve the government in economic matters. _____
A)True
B)False
19

Conservatives and monarchists were voted back into office in France in 1848, in part because the National Workshops demoralized the lower classes. _____
A)True
B)False
20

The revolution in France in 1848 helped to spark similar events in other European countries. _____
A)True
B)False
21

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1826), whose musical compositions overflowed with individualism and emotionality, epitomizes the effect that romantic ideology had on the field of music. _____
A)True
B)False
22

Certain critics, like Georges Sand (1804-1876), lamented that the influence of romanticism in literature was to create an "ideal romantic heroine" who followed her emotions rather than tradition or reason. _____
A)True
B)False
23

The Junkers were the conservative Prussian landed aristocracy, who staffed the state offices in Prussia and had little toleration for liberal or nationalistic reforms. _____
A)True
B)False
24

The Irish Potato famine, which lead to the deaths of about a million Irishmen and the emigration of a million more, was at least partially the fault of the British legislators, who stood true to their free-market principles and refused to provide relief to the starving Irish. _____
A)True
B)False







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