Unit 6 Quiz 2

"The landed interest, the church, the law, the monied interest -- all of these have engrossed, as it were, the House of Commons into their own hands, but the interests of industry and trade have scarcely any representatives at all!"

Petition to the English House of Commons, 1816

The excerpt above most probably refers to the lack of representation in the House of Commons of which of the following?

• Women

• Yeoman farmers

• The working class

• The landed aristocracy

• The upper middle class span

“Up! up! my Friend and quit your books;

Let nature be your teacher.

One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil and of good

Than all the sages can.

Enough of Science and of Art;

Come forth, and bring with you a heart.”

The poem above reflects which of the following?

• Futurism

• Existentialism

• Romanticism

• Deism

• Pragmatism

A major goal of English Chartists in the 1840's was

• equal distribution of wealth

• protective tariffs for farm products

• war with France

• abolition of the monarchy

• the vote for all men

Refer to the passage below.

“Experience has no value for the arrogant man; faith is nothing to him. He substitutes for faith a pretended individual conviction, and he dispenses with all inquiry and study. For inquiry and study appear too trivial to a mind that believes itself strong enough to embrace at one glance all questions and all facts. Laws have no value for him, because he has not made them. Besides, he thinks it would be beneath a man like him to recognize the rules established by earlier generations that he considers rude and ignorant. Instead, he believes that power resides in himself alone.”

Klemens von Metternich, letter to Tsar Alexander I, 1820

Based on the letter and its context, Metternich most clearly supported which of the following principles?

• The maintenance of traditional social structures and values

• The right to national self-determination

• The application of scientific laws to society

• The redistribution of resources and wealth

The following question refers to the topic of conservatism in the nineteenth century.

Which of the following best explains the emphasis that many early-nineteenth-century conservative thinkers placed on the value of religious belief in maintaining social stability?

• They were hoping to encourage the spread of Protestant revivalist ideas such as Methodism.

• They were seeking to slow the progress of scientific research by reinforcing the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

• They were reacting to the arrival of increasing numbers of people who practiced non-European forms of religion.

• They were responding to the upheaval associated with attempts to supplant Christianity during the radical phase of the French Revolution.

The following question refers to the topic of conservatism in the nineteenth century.

Which of the following best explains why Russia emerged as the leading supporter of the conservative political order established in 1815 ?

• Russian society had been less influenced by Enlightenment thought than were other European states.

• The Russian monarchy had undertaken a program of modernization and Westernization under Tsar Peter the Great and his successors.

• Russia had formed part of the coalition that defeated Napoleon.

• Russia was the largest European state in terms of land area and population.

European liberals in the first half of the nineteenth century typically supported

• women’s suffrage

• accident and unemployment insurance

• the right of workers to unionize and strike

• a written constitution and wider suffrage

• the establishment of overseas colonies to improve conditions at home

The following question refers to the topic of Romanticism.

The Romantic movement’s increased emphasis on the importance of emotional bonds is best understood in the context of which eighteenth-century social development?

• The growing economic influence of the commercial classes associated with the expansion of trade

• Increased resources devoted to child-rearing and a growing emphasis on education

• Growth of urban populations associated with rising productivity

• Greater social mobility associated with economic change

The British Great Reform Act of 1832 did which of the following?

• Gave women the right to vote.

• Granted universal male suffrage.

• Limited the power of the monarchy.

• Abolished the right of the House of Lords to veto legislation.

• Increased the voting power of the middle class.

The Concert of Europe, which existed between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the Crimean War, operated as a

• commonwealth system that sought to promote an economic union of European nations

• supranational institution that governed the continent of Europe

• multilateral agency to control territories in the Middle East and Africa

• loose forum to achieve consensus among the major powers on foreign policy questions

• cultural exchange program among Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Britain