Lesson Y215.3

Y215.3 The Risorgimento and the establishment of a new Kingdom of Italy 1850–1861 Quiz: OCR History, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. Who became the Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia in November 1852?

    • Count Cavour
    • Giuseppe Mazzini
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi
    • Massimo d'Azeglio

  2. Which international conflict did Piedmont enter in 1855 to secure British and French backing?

    • The Schleswig War
    • First Italian War
    • The Franco-Prussian War
    • The Crimean War

  3. Where did Cavour and Napoleon III hold secret talks in July 1858 to plan against Austria?

    • Biarritz
    • Turin
    • Plombières
    • Villafranca

  4. Which territories were ceded to France in 1860 in exchange for accepting central Italian annexations?

    • Tuscany and Modena
    • Lombardy and Venetia
    • Corsica and Sardinia
    • Savoy and Nice

  5. Which bloody 1859 battle directly prompted Napoleon III to seek an armistice with Austria?

    • Magenta
    • Novara
    • Solferino
    • Custoza

  6. What armistice was secretly agreed between France and Austria in July 1859 without Cavour's knowledge?

    • Zurich
    • Villafranca
    • Frankfurt
    • Turin

  7. Which revolutionary leader headed the famous Expedition of the Thousand to Sicily in 1860?

    • Giuseppe Garibaldi
    • Count Cavour
    • Daniele Manin
    • Giuseppe Mazzini

  8. Where in Sicily did Garibaldi and his Redshirts land in May 1860?

    • Messina
    • Catania
    • Palermo
    • Marsala

  9. Which major river battle in October 1860 secured Garibaldi's victory over Neapolitan royalist forces?

    • Calatafimi
    • Solferino
    • Castelfidardo
    • Volturno

  10. At which historic meeting in October 1860 did Garibaldi yield his southern conquests to King Victor Emmanuel II?

    • Teano
    • Plombières
    • Naples
    • Turin

  11. Who was officially proclaimed the first King of united Italy in March 1861?

    • Victor Emmanuel II
    • Charles Albert
    • Umberto I
    • Francis II

  12. Which Italian region remained under Austrian rule immediately after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861?

    • Tuscany
    • Venetia
    • Piedmont
    • Lombardy

  13. Which city served as the original capital of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865?

    • Florence
    • Milan
    • Turin
    • Rome

  14. Which French emperor formed an alliance with Cavour against Austria during the Second Italian War of Independence?

    • Napoleon III
    • Charles X
    • Louis Philippe
    • Napoleon I

  15. What political reform in 1848 gave Piedmont a constitutional monarchy that survived into the 1850s?

    • The Statuto Albertino
    • The Siccardi Laws
    • The Casati Law
    • The Connubio

  16. By what democratic process were the central Italian duchies incorporated into Piedmont in early 1860?

    • Plebiscites
    • Military treaties
    • Royal decrees
    • Papal bulls

  17. Which battle in September 1860 allowed Piedmontese forces to defeat the Papal army and march south?

    • Magenta
    • Novara
    • Castelfidardo
    • Volturno

  18. What name was given to Cavour's 1852 political alliance between the moderate centre-right and centre-left?

    • The Carbonari
    • The Trasformismo
    • The Connubio
    • The Risorgimento

  19. Which southern monarchy was completely dismantled following Garibaldi's successful campaign in 1860?

    • Kingdom of Lombardy
    • Two Sicilies
    • Duchy of Parma
    • Grand Duchy Tuscany

  20. Which 1850 Piedmontese legislation curtailed the special privileges of the Roman Catholic Church?

    • The Rattazzi Laws
    • The Statuto Albertino
    • The Siccardi Laws
    • The Casati Law

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