Lesson Y215.1

Y215.1 Italy 1789–1847 Quiz: OCR History, Unit 2

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  1. Which treaty in 1797 saw Napoleon cede Venice to the Austrian Empire?

    • Campo Formio
    • Tolentino
    • Pressburg
    • Villafranca
  2. What secret revolutionary society played a key role in the 1820 Italian uprisings?

    • Adelphi
    • Freemasons
    • Carbonari
    • Young Italy
  3. Who founded the nationalist movement Young Italy in 1831?

    • Vincenzo Gioberti
    • Massimo d'Azeglio
    • Giuseppe Mazzini
    • Cesare Balbo
  4. Which foreign power dominated the Italian peninsula after the 1815 Congress of Vienna?

    • France
    • Britain
    • Prussia
    • Austria
  5. What political idea proposed a federation of Italian states led by the Pope?

    • Neo-Guelphism
    • Jacobinism
    • Mazzinianism
    • Piedmontism
  6. Which Italian kingdom saw the first outbreak of revolution in July 1820?

    • Kingdom of Lombardy
    • Kingdom of Two Sicilies
    • Papal States
    • Kingdom of Piedmont
  7. Who was restored as ruler of Piedmont-Sardinia after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815?

    • Ferdinand I
    • Charles Albert
    • Charles Felix
    • Victor Emmanuel I
  8. Which priest authored 'Of the Moral and Civil Primacy of the Italians' in 1843?

    • Cesare Balbo
    • Vincenzo Gioberti
    • Massimo d'Azeglio
    • Carlo Cattaneo
  9. Which liberal Pope elected in 1846 initially raised hopes among Italian nationalists?

    • Pope Gregory XVI
    • Pope Pius IX
    • Pope Pius VIII
    • Pope Leo XII
  10. What code of law was introduced across Italy during the Napoleonic era?

    • Albertine Statute
    • Austrian Civil Code
    • Leopoldine Code
    • Napoleonic Code
  11. Which 1831 uprising leader was betrayed and executed in Modena?

    • Pellegrino Rossi
    • Guglielmo Pepe
    • Ciro Menotti
    • Santorre di Santarosa
  12. What state was created by Napoleon in northern Italy in 1805?

    • Kingdom of Italy
    • Cisalpine Republic
    • Lombard Republic
    • Roman Republic
  13. Which Austrian chancellor famously described Italy as merely a geographical expression in 1847?

    • Francis II
    • Felix Schwarzenberg
    • Count Radetzky
    • Klemens von Metternich
  14. What was the main economic goal of the Italian customs union proposed in 1847?

    • Free trade
    • Single currency
    • High tariffs
    • Feudal taxation
  15. Which Italian thinker advocated a federal republic based on Swiss-style cantons?

    • Carlo Cattaneo
    • Giuseppe Mazzini
    • Cesare Balbo
    • Vincenzo Gioberti
  16. Which royal dynasty ruled the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies after 1815?

    • Bourbon Dynasty
    • Bonaparte Dynasty
    • Habsburg Dynasty
    • Savoy Dynasty
  17. What book published by Cesare Balbo in 1844 urged Piedmont to lead Italian federation?

    • On Recent Events
    • Hopes of Italy
    • My Prisons
    • Primacy of Italians
  18. Which region was directly annexed to the French Empire under Napoleon?

    • Sardinia
    • Venetia
    • Piedmont
    • Sicily
  19. Why did the Italian revolutions of 1820 and 1831 ultimately fail?

    • British blockade
    • Papal excommunication
    • Austrian intervention
    • French invasion
  20. What major social group largely failed to support early Italian nationalist movements before 1848?

    • Urban bourgeoisie
    • Army officers
    • Peasantry
    • University students

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