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Nationalism Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the French Revolution help create a new French national identity?

a)

By uniting France under a stronger king like Louis XVI

b)

By encouraging people to see themselves as part of a nation

c)

By expanding France’s borders across Europe and the Americas

d)

By returning power to the nobility

2.

What does “negative integration” mean in the context of the French Revolution?

a)

People defined themselves by supporting the king

b)

People avoided involvement in government

c)

People defined themselves in opposition to enemies

d)

People rejected all national identities. including French Identity

3.

How did people in countries occupied by Napoleon often respond to French rule?

a)

They accepted French identity and became French

b)

They formed new national identities in opposition to France

c)

They gave up all sense of identity

d)

They became loyal French citizens and followed the Napoleonic Code

4.

How did nationalism change people’s identity after the French Revolution?

a)

People became servants of the church

b)

People remained subjects of a king

c)

People became citizens of a nation

d)

People lost political rights

5.

Nationalism helps answer which important political question?

a)

Who should own land?

b)

Which group of people gets to agree to the government?

c)

Who should control the economy and taxes?

d)

Which religion should be the official religion of the state?

6.

What is the best definition of a nation?

a)

A place ruled by an absolute monarch or an emperor

b)

A group of people with a shared identity connected to a region

c)

Any country with an army and a navy

d)

A government with strict laws enforced using violence

7.

What does self-determination mean?

a)

A nation’s ability to trade freely without any taxes

b)

A king’s right to rule over the state

c)

The ability of a nation to create its own government

d)

The spread of nationalism by the army and navy

8.

What is a nation-state?

a)

A state ruled by an empire or a king

b)

A country with many different identities like the Austro-Hungarian Empire

c)

A group of people with a common identity and a sovereign government

d)

Any government even if it doesn't have soveriengty, like Pennsylvania

9.

What is ethnic nationalism?

a)

The belief that all people in an empire should share one religion

b)

The belief that people of a common ethnic group deserve self-determination

c)

Loyalty to a king who rules multiple ethnic groups in a state

d)

Support for democracy in all nations and empires

10.

What was one negative effect of Greek ethnic nationalism?

a)

It weakened the Ottoman military

b)

It encouraged tolerance of diversity

c)

It led to attacks on non-Greeks

d)

It ended religious conflict

11.

What was the main goal of Serbian nationalism in the late 1800s?

a)

To restore Ottoman control of the Balkans

b)

To unite all Slavic people into one state

c)

To ally permanently with Austria-Hungary

d)

To prevent ethnic nationalism in multinational states

12.

Who was Camillo di Cavour?

a)

A German general who unified Germany

b)

A Serbian nationalist leader

c)

The Prime Minister who helped unify Italy

d)

The king of unified Italy

13.

What role did Giuseppe Garibaldi play in Italian unification?

a)

He ruled Italy as king

b)

He negotiated treaties with Austria

c)

He led military campaigns to unify Southern Italy

d)

He opposed Italian nationalism

14.

Who was Otto von Bismarck?

a)

The king of France

b)

The Prussian Prime Minister who unified Germany

c)

An Italian revolutionary

d)

A leader of the Ottoman Empire

15.

How did Bismarck use realpolitik to unify Germany?

a)

By holding free elections

b)

By avoiding wars

c)

By manipulating alliances and conflicts

d)

By promoting religious unity

16.

What was the Franco-Prussian War most important for?

a)

Ending Italian nationalism and unification of Italy

b)

It led to a peaceful end to nationalism

c)

Encouraging the final German states to unify

d)

Restoring Austrian power over the German States

17.

What was one consequence of ethnic nationalism after German unification?

a)

Greater acceptance of minorities and different ethnic groups

b)

Suspicion toward groups seen as “not fully German”

c)

The end of discrimination in Germany

d)

The collapse of nationalism and self-determination