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MCQ Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

The The Rise of Nationalism in Europe MCQ Class 10 Social Science provided below covers all important topics given in this chapter. These MCQs will help you to properly prepare for exams.

Question. What was the main occupation in the mid 18th century in Europe?
(a) Trade and commerce
(b) Peasantry
(c) Craftmanship
(d) All of the above

Question. What was the main feature of the pattern of land holding prevailing in the Eastern and Central Europe?
(a) Tenants
(b) Vast estates
(c) Small owners
(d) Landlords

Question. Which newly designed flag was chosen to replace the formal flag ‘Royal Standard’ in France?
(a) Union Jack
(b) Tricolour
(c) White Saltire
(d) Red Cross

Question. Which of the following reforms made the whole system in France more rational and efficient?
(a) Administrative reform
(b) Social reform
(c) Economic reform
(d) Political reform

Question. Which country became full-fledged territorial state in Europe in the year 1789?
(a) Germany
(b) France
(c) England
(d) Spain

Question. When was the first clear expression of nationalism noticed in Europe?
(a) 1787
(b) 1759
(c) 1789
(d) 1769

Question. What was ‘Young Italy’?
(a) Vision of Italy
(b) Secret society
(c) National anthem of Italy
(d) None of these

Question. Treaty of Constantinople recognised ………. as an independent nation.
(a) Greece
(b) Australia
(c) Italy
(d) None of the above

Question. Which language was spoken for purposes of diplomacy in the mid 18th century in Europe?
(a) German
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Spanish

Question. Which of the following did not play a role to develop nationalist sentiments?
(a) Art
(b) Music
(c) Climate
(d) None

Question. Who remarked “When France Sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold”?
(a) Giuseppe Mazzini
(b) Metternich
(c) Louis Philippe
(d) Johann Gottfried

Question. Which country had been party of the ‘Ottoman Empire’ since the 15th century?
(a) Spain
(b) Greece
(c) France
(d) Germany

Question. Who was proclaimed the King of United Italy, in 1861?
(a) Giuseppe Garibaldi
(b) Victor Emmanuel II
(c) Giuseppe Mazzini
(d) Cavour

Question. Liberal-nationalits mainly belong to which class?
(a) Elite class
(b) Educated middle-class elite
(c) Working class
(d) Artisans

Question. Which of the following was not a part of Napoleon’s defeat?
(a) Britain
(b) Australia
(c) Italy
(d) Brazil

Question. Who destroyed democracy in France?
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) Mussolini
(c) Napolean Bonaparte
(d) Bismarck

Question. The meaning of ‘Volksgeist’:
(a) Common people
(b) Spirit of the nation
(c) Music
(d) None of above

Question. The place where the priests and bishops were punished.
(a) Siberia
(b) Tundra
(c) Mongolia
(d) None of above

Question. Which region is ruled over by ‘The Habsburg Empire’?
(a) Austria-Hungary
(b) France-Netherlands
(c) Spain-Portugal
(d) Scotland-Ireland

Question. Which country began to use language as a weapon of national resistance?
(a) Poland
(b) Prussia
(c) Hungary
(d) Austria

Question. Which of the following did the European conservatives not believe in?
(a) Traditional institution of state policy
(b) Strengthened monarchy
(c) A return to a society of pre-revolutionary days
(d) None of these

Question. Name the Italian revolutionary from Genoa.
(a) Metternich
(b) Johann Gottfried
(c) Giuseppe Mazzini
(d) None of these

Question. What major issue was criticised against by the liberal nationalists?
(a) Censorship laws to control the press
(b) Preservation of the Church
(c) A modern army
(d) Efficient bureaucracy

Question. German philosopher, Johann Gottfried clamined that true German culture was to be discovered among the:
(a) Common people
(b) Aristocratic
(c) Middle class elite
(d) None of above

Question. Where was the first upheaval took place in July, 1803?
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Greece

Question. The most serious source of nationalist tension in Europe, after 1871, was an area called:
(a) Ottoman
(b) Prussia
(c) Balkans
(d) Macedonia

Question. Which of the following statements about the ‘French Revolution’ are correct?
(i) After the end of the French Revolution it was proclaimed that it was the people who would henceforth constitute the nation and shape its destiny.
(ii) France will have a constitutional monarchy and the new republic will be headed by a member of the royal family.
(iii) A centralised administrative system will be put in place to formulate uniform laws for all citizens.
(iv) Imposition of internal custom duties and dues will continue to exist in France.
(a) (ii) and (iii)
(b) (ii) and (iv)
(c) (i) and (iii)
(d) (iii) and (iv)

Question. Match the term with the statements given below: A ‘Utopian Society’ is
(i) a society under a benevolent monarchy
(ii) a society that is unlikely to ever exist
(iii) a society under the control of a chosen few wise men
(iv) a society under Parliamentary Democracy
(a) (i) and (ii)
(b) (ii) and (iii)
(c) (ii) only
(d) (iii) on

Question. The Civil Code of 1804 in France is usually known as:
(a) The French Revolutionary Code
(b) Napoleonic Code
(c) European Imperial Code
(d) The French Civil Code

Question. Pick out the correct definition to define the term ‘Plebiscite’.
(a) Plebiscite is a direct vote by which only the female members of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal.
(b) Plebiscite is a direct vote by the female members of a matriarchal system to accept or reject a proposal.
(c) Plebiscite is a direct vote by only a chosen few from the total population of a parti-cular region to accept or reject a proposal.
(d) Plebiscite is a direct vote by which all the citizens of a region are asked to accept or reject a proposal

Question. Nationalism’, which emerged as a force in the late 19th century, means
(a) strong devotion for one’s own country and its history and culture.
(b) strong devotion for one’s own country without appreciation for other nations.
(c) strong love for one’s own country and hatred for others.
(d) equally strong devotion for all the countries of the world.

Question. Ernst Renan believed that the existence of nations is a necessity because
(a) it ensures protection to all inhabitants.
(b) it ensures liberty to all inhabitant citizens.
(c) it ensures Parliamentary form of govern-ment to its inhabitants.
(d) it ensures jobs and good health to all its inhabitants.

Question. Choose the correct nationality of the artist Frederic Sorrieu who visualised in his painting a society made up of Democratic and Social Republic.
(a) German
(b) Swiss
(c) French
(d) American

Question. The first great revolution which gave the clear idea of nationalism with its core words: ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ was:
(a) The Russian Revolution
(b) The French Revolution
(c) The American Revolution
(d) India’s First War of Independence

Question. The French revolutionaries declared that the mission and destiny of the French nation was:-
(a) to conquer the people of Europe.
(b) to liberate the people of Europe from despotism.
(c) to strengthen absolute monarchies in all the countries of Europe.
(d) None of the Above

Question. Which of the following countries did not attend the Congress of Vienna?
(a) Britain
(b) Russia
(c) Prussia
(d) Switzerland

Question. What was the objective of drawing up Treaty of Vienna?
(a) For bringing out peace among the countries
(b) For Sustainable development
(c) To form Constituent assembly
(d) Undoing the effects of Napoleonic wars.

Question. _______ between England and Scotland resulted in the formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’
(a) The Napoleonic Code
(b)The Treaty of Vienna
(c) The Act of Union
(d) The civil code

Question. What territories did the Habsburg Empire rule over?
(a) Hungary
(b) Austria
(c) Both Austria and Hungary
(d) Romania

Question. Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified ___ as a female figure.
(a) Confinement
(b) Liberty
(c) Law
(d) Enlightment

Question. Which of the quote is said by Metternich?
(a) Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
(b) ‘When France sneezes,’ Metternich once remarked, ‘the rest of Europe catches cold.’
(c) Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
(d) Giuseppe Mazzini is ‘the most dangerous enemy of our social order’

Question. Which among the following best signifies the idea of liberal nationalism of nineteenth century Europe ?
(a) Emphasis on social justice
(b) State planned socio-economic system
(c) Freedom for individual and equality before law
(d) Supremacy of State oriented nationalism.

Question. The term das volk means :
(a) Common people
(b) German philosopher
(c) Folk dance
(d) Folk poetry

Question. The Olive branch around the sword signifies :
(a) Being freed
(b) Readiness to fight
(c) Heroism
(d) Willingness to make peace

Question. Unification of Italy took place between :
(a) 1859–1870
(b) 1866–1871
(c) 1814–1815
(d) 1859–1905

Question. Unification of Germany took place between :
(a) 1814–1815
(b) 1821–1848
(c) 1866–1871
(d) 1797–1905

Question. He had sought to put together a coherent programme for a Unitary Italian Republic :
(a) King Victor Emmanuel II
(b) Kaiser William I
(c) Giuseppe Mazzini
(d) Chief Minister Cavour

Question. The Estates General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the :
(a) Parliament
(b) Constitution
(c) Empire
(d) National Assembly

Question. The treaty of 1832 recognised Greece as an independent nation :
(a) Treaty of Versailles
(b) Treaty of Paris
(c) Treaty of Vienna
(d) Treaty of Constantinople

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Question. When conservative regimes were restored to power, many liberal minded people went underground because of the fear of ………. .

Question. The Act of Union of 1707 was between ………. and ………. .

Question. ………. were the most serious nationalist tension in Europe after 1871.

Question. Jacob clubs were the ………. .

Question. ………. allegory represent the nation of France.

TRUE/FALSE

Question. From 1848, Prussia took on the leadership of the movement of national unification.

Question. In Britain, formation of a nation-state was a long parliamentary process.

Question. Mazzini was a great revolutionary leader of Romanian.

Question. The Napoleonic Bode upheld reforms and equality.

Question. Jacobin clubs influenced German Army.

Question. Name the Civil Code of 1804 which established equality before law and secured the right to property in France.

Question. The Treaty of Vienna was concluded between Britain,Russia, Prussia and Italy

Question. After the French Revolution, French, as it was spoken in the western part of France, became the common language of the French nation.

Question. Giuseppe Garibaldi convinced the King of Prussia to unite all of Germany under his leadership.

Question. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, women carried out the fight for the vote through an international suffrage movement.

Question. Germany and Italy were the first two nation states to emerge in Europe.

Assertion and Reasoning Based Questions :

Mark the option which is most suitable :

(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.

Question. Assertion : Italy was divided into seven states, of which only one was ruled by an Italian princely house.
Reason : The north was under the domination of the Bourbon kings of Spain.

Question. Assertion : Germany, Italy and Switzerland were divided into kingdoms, duchies and cantons whose rulers had their autonomous territories.
Reason : They were closely bound to each other in spite of their autonomous rule.

Question. Assertion : On 18 May 1848, 831 elected representatives revolted in the Frankfurt parliament.
Reason : The elected representatives revolted against the issue of extending political rights to women.

Question. Assertion : The Scottish Highlanders were forbidden to speak their Gaelic language or wear their national dress, and large numbers were forcibly driven out of their homeland.
Reason : The English helped the Protestants of Ireland to establish their dominance over a largely Catholic country.

Question. Assertion : Giuseppe Mazzini worked with the conservatives for the monarchy.
Reason : Italy had to continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.

Question. Assertion : From the very beginning, the French revolutionaries introduced various measures and practices like the idea of la patrie and le citoyen.
Reason : This was done to create a sense of collective identity amongst the French people.

Question. Assertion : Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation.
Reason : Weavers in Silesia had led a revolt against contractors who supplied raw material and gave them orders for finished textiles but drastically reduced their payments.

Source Extract Based Questions

Read the source given below and answer the questions that follows:
Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, European governments were driven by a spirit of conservatism.
Conservatives believed that established, traditional institutions of state and society – like the monarchy, the Church, social hierarchies, property and the family – should be preserved. Most conservatives, however, did not propose a return to the society of pre-revolutionary days. Rather, they realised, from the changes initiated by Napoleon, that modernisation could in fact strengthen traditional institutions like the monarchy.
It could make state power more effective and stronger.
A modern army, an efficient bureaucracy, a dynamic economy, the abolition of feudalism and serfdom could strengthen the autocratic monarchies of Europe.
In 1815, representatives of the European powers who had collectively defeated Napoleon, met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for Europe. The Congress was hosted by the Austrian Chancellor Duke Metternich. 
The delegates drew up the Treaty of Vienna of 1815 with the object of undoing most of the changes that had come about in Europe during the Napoleonic wars. The Bourbon dynasty, which had been deposed during the French Revolution, was restored to power, and France lost the territories it had annexed under Napoleon. A series of states were set up on the boundaries of France to prevent French expansion in future.

Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option
Question. Which of the following statements correctly describes about European conservative ideology?
(a) Preservation of believes introduced by Napoleon
(b) Preservation of two sects of Christianity
(c) Preservation of socialist ideology in economic sphere
(d) Preservation of traditionalist beliefs in state and society

Question. Identify the purpose to convene the Vienna of Congress in 1815 from the following options?
(a) To declare competition of German Unification
(b) To restore conservative regime in Europe
(c) To declare war against France
(d) To start the process of Italian Unification

Question. How did the Congress of Vienna ensure peace in Europe? Select the appropriate option.
(a) With the restoration of Bourbon Dynasty
(b) Austria was not given the control of Northern Italy
(c) Laying out a balance of power between all the great powers in Europe
(d) By giving power to the German confederation 

Question. What did conservatives focus on the Congress of Vienna? Select the appropriate option.
(a) To re-establish peace and stability in Europe
(b) To establish socialism in Europe
(c) To introduce democracy in France
(d) To set up a new Parliament in Austria

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Such conditions were viewed as obstacles to economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes, who argued for the creation of a unified economic territory allowing the unhindered movement of goods, people and capital. In 1834, a customs union or zollverein was formed at the initiative of Prussia and joined by most of the German states. The union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to two. The creation of a network of railways further stimulated mobility, harnessing economic interests to national unification. A wave of economic nationalism strengthened the wider nationalist sentiments growing at the time.

Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option.

Question. The main function of the Prussian Zollverein was to :
(a) Impose a custom duty on imported goods.
(b) Abolish the traiff barriers.
(c) Reduce custom duties.
(d) Impose new rules for trade.

Question. Zolleverin started in 1834 in Prussia refers to a ______.
(a) Trade Union
(b) Customs Union
(c) Labour Union
(d) Farmers’ Union

Question. Elle, the measuring unit in Germany was used to measure :
(a) cloth
(b) thread
(c) land
(d) height

Question. Formation of zollverein is a part of :
(a) Liberalization in Europe.
(b) Nationalism in Europe.
(c) Conservatism in Europe.
(d) Secret Society in Europe.

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