Modern World History Archives

291. An Italian organization named for the charcoal the obscured the faces of its members, an underground expression of opposition to the restoration done by the Congress of Vienna was:

A. Carbonari

B. Coke

C. Coaler

D. none of the above

✅ The correct answer is option A.

292. Cavour prepared for the first conflict between Italy and Austria by diplomatic agreements with:

A. France

B. Russia

C. Britain

D. Prussia

✅ The correct answer is option A.

293. Orientalism refers to:

A. early nineteenth-century artistic and cultural developments in the Ottoman Empire

B. the heightened European interest in the east specifically Egypt

C. cultural nationalism in China and Japan

D. None of the above

✅ The correct answer is option B.

294. In general, the significance of the Greek war was that it:

A. helped Europe redefine its identity

B. abolished Ottoman rule in the Balkan

C. preserved an Ottoman foothold in Southeastern Europe

D. brought Serbia and Greece into a mutual alliance

✅ The correct answer is option A.

295. Which political group was not presented in the provisional government following the abdication of Louis Philippe in 1848?

A. liberals

B. socialists

C. anarchists

D. republic

✅ The correct answer is option A.

296. The Troppau Memorandum (1820) was a:

A. territorial treaty signed by Prussia and Russia

B. treaty that partitioned Poland among the great powers

C. pledge by Russia to help Italy get rid of the Carbonari

D. pact between Austria, Russia and Prussia to aid one another to suppress one another

✅ The correct answer is option D.

297. The Revolution of 1830 in France was led by:

A. workers, artisans, students and writers

B. middle-class Jacobins

C. the nobility and the army

D. students

✅ The correct answer is option A.

298. The Bobbies, established by a law passed in 1828 by Parliament, hit the streets of London as its first modern

A. social workers.

B. police force.

C. private investigators.

D. sanitation crew.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

299. The major political ideologies of modern times are:

A. Romanticism, classicism and radicalism

B. Conservatism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism

C. Marxism, liberalism and nationalism

D. All of the above

✅ The correct answer is option B.

300. In the novel Hard Times, which of the following authors described the way industrialization was affecting the fictional settlement Coketown?

A. Frederich Engels

B. Emily Brontë

C. Charles Dickens

D. Mark Twain

✅ The correct answer is option C.