2G.1.1 The liberal state, c1911–18 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 7

The 20 questions

1. Which Italian prime minister dominated politics from 1911 to 1914 and extended the franchise in 1912?

   • Antonio Salandra
   • Giovanni Giolitti
   • Francesco Crispi
   • Luigi Facta

2. Which territory did Italy invade during its 1911–12 war against the Ottoman Empire?

   • Somalia
   • Abyssinia
   • Libya
   • Eritrea

3. Which group gained the right to vote under the 1912 Italian electoral reform?

   • Factory workers only
   • All adult women
   • Property owners only
   • Most adult men

4. Which secret agreement of April 1915 brought Italy into the First World War?

   • Treaty of Ouchy
   • Triple Alliance
   • Treaty of London
   • Treaty of Versailles

5. At which battle in October 1917 did Italian forces suffer a catastrophic military defeat?

   • Battle of Caporetto
   • Battle of Vittorio Veneto
   • Battle of Isonzo
   • Battle of the Piave

6. Which term expressed Italian nationalist disappointment over the post-1918 peace terms?

   • Risorgimento
   • Red Biennium
   • Mutilated victory
   • Corporate state

7. Which monarch appointed Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister of Italy in October 1922?

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

8. Which Italian prime minister declared Italy's neutrality at the outbreak of war in 1914?

   • Antonio Salandra
   • Giovanni Giolitti
   • Vittorio Orlando
   • Paolo Boselli

9. What was the name of Giolitti's system of building political majorities through compromise?

   • Risorgimento
   • Podesta
   • Squadrismo
   • Trasformismo

10. Which future dictator was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party for supporting war in 1914?

    • Antonio Gramsci
    • Benito Mussolini
    • Giacomo Matteotti
    • Gabriele D'Annunzio

11. What major economic issue severely affected Italy immediately after the First World War?

    • Rapid deflation
    • High inflation
    • Mass privatisation
    • Currency appreciation

12. Which river front was the site of eleven costly Italian offensives during 1915–17?

    • The Somme
    • The Isonzo
    • The Marne
    • The Piave

13. Which nationalist leader seized control of the city of Fiume in September 1919?

    • Filippo Marinetti
    • Benito Mussolini
    • Luigi Facta
    • Gabriele D'Annunzio

14. Which voting system introduced in 1919 led to mass party victories in Italy?

    • Block voting
    • First-past-the-post
    • Two-round system
    • Proportional representation

15. What was the term for the movement pushing Italy to enter the First World War?

    • Irredentism
    • Interventionism
    • Isolationism
    • Neutralism

16. What organisation did Benito Mussolini set up in Milan in March 1919?

    • Fasci di Combattimento
    • OVRA
    • Squadristi
    • Opera Nazionale Balilla

17. Who led the radical socialists that split to form the Italian Communist Party in 1921?

    • Don Luigi Sturzo
    • Giovanni Giolitti
    • Gabriele D'Annunzio
    • Antonio Gramsci

18. Which British prime minister led the government that signed the Treaty of London with Italy in 1915?

    • David Lloyd George
    • Herbert Asquith
    • Stanley Baldwin
    • Ramsay MacDonald

19. What nationalist concept arose from Italy receiving less territory than promised in 1919?

    • March on Rome
    • Two Red Years
    • Aventine Secession
    • Mutilated victory

20. Which electoral system contributed to political instability in Italy after 1918?

    • Presidential system
    • Proportional representation
    • First-past-the-post
    • Absolute monarchy

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