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Chapter 19 - The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie 1830-1871

Chapter 19
The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie 1830-1871

Multiple Choice Questions


1. How did the force of nationalism change after 1848?
A. It shifted from eastern and southern Europe to northern and western Europe.
B. It became increasingly militant and ethnocentric.
C. It began to more strongly exhibit humanitarian values.
D. It began to be associated more strongly with liberalism.

2. The basic principle of nineteenth-century liberalism was that


A. the individual should be free from external control.
B. wealth and power should be distributed fairly in society.
C. the state is a divine institution.
D. All these answers are correct.

3. In nineteenth-century Europe, the most successful liberal revolution occurred in which of


the following countries?
A. Italy
B. Russia
C. France
D. Germany

4. Who, with his personal army of "Red Shirts", invaded and liberated the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies?
A. Giuseppe Mazzini
B. Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
C. Otto von Bismarck
D. Giuseppe Garibaldi

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5. Realpolitik, between 1850 and 1871, had a powerful impact on the


A. unification campaign in Germany.
B. electoral changes in Great Britain.
C. economic policies of Napoleon III in France.
D. liberalization of Russia's domestic policies.

6. Who engineered the unification of Germany?


A. Cavour
B. Disraeli
C. Bismarck
D. Metternich

7. The American Civil War had the immediate consequence of


A. ending regional tensions.
B. abolishing slavery.
C. industrializing the national economy.
D. resolving racial problems.

8. The seeds of World War I were sown in part by


A. the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.
B. Britain's introduction of free trade in 1846.
C. Prussia's humiliating defeat of France in 1870-1871.
D. the unification of Italy in 1871.

9. At the heart of nineteenth-century liberalism was a belief in


A. government control.
B. freedom for the individual.
C. state-funded welfare.
D. government-operated schools.

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10. Bentham believed that society should be based on "utility", meaning


A. natural rights.
B. "the greatest happiness for the greatest number".
C. God's law.
D. tradition.

11. John Stuart Mill advocated


A. voting rights for eighteen-year-olds.
B. gay rights.
C. voting rights for women.
D. a state-supported church.

12. Utopian socialists generally


A. supported the bourgeois values of thrift and hard work as ways for workers to improve
their condition.
B. urged reform of the ills of industrial society based on discoveries about society made in
communal associations.
C. advocated the violent overthrow of existing governments.
D. agreed with liberal principles.

13. Marx theorized that history is propelled by


A. individual greed.
B. class conflict.
C. God.
D. chance events.

14. What set evangelicals apart from liberal Protestants?


A. their insistence on the paramount authority of the Holy Scriptures
B. their adoption of many Deist ideas
C. their emphasis on ritual and sacraments
D. their opposition to the holiness movement

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15. Higher criticism refers to a nineteenth-century intellectual movement in which scholars


A. focused exclusively on literary texts while ignoring their historical settings.
B. studied the Bible not as a divinely inspired book incapable of error but simply as a set of
writings susceptible to varied interpretations.
C. analyzed all writings, secular and sacred, in accordance with Marxist theory.
D. applied linguistic theory to literature to show that all texts are the same.

16. Which of the following scientific advancements did NOT occur between 1830 and 1871?
A. Data were collected showing that modern plants and animals had evolved from simpler
forms through a process of natural selection.
B. The germ theory of disease was established.
C. The interior structure of the atom was fully mapped out.
D. Chloroform and other anesthetics were introduced.

17. In science, Charles Darwin


A. established the germ theory of disease.
B. marshaled data to support the theory of evolution.
C. introduced the anesthetic called chloroform.
D. formulated the periodic table of the elements.

18. In science, Pasteur


A. established the germ theory of disease.
B. marshaled data to support the theory of evolution.
C. introduced the anesthetic called chloroform.
D. formulated the periodic table of the elements.

19. douard Manet updated a sixteenth-century painting of a nude woman in his work
Olympia by
A. depicting the subject with extreme abstraction and symbolism.
B. romanticizing the subject's profession as a prostitute.
C. depicting the subject as divine.
D. presenting the subject with complete realism.

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20. French art in the Age of the Bourgeoisie was


A. dominated by an avant garde.
B. subject to pressures from official state institutions.
C. under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
D. a product of what the aristocrats dictated at the royal courts.

21. One leading French romantic writer was


A. Honor de Balzac.
B. Victor Hugo.
C. Gustave Flaubert.
D. Jean Valjean.

22. Romantic novelists concentrated on


A. scientific accuracy.
B. ordinary people without idealizing them.
C. the emotions of their characters.
D. the social and economic forces that determined the lives of their characters.

23. Which nineteenth-century philosophical movement taught that divinity manifests itself in
many forms, including the physical universe?
A. New Age
B. realpolitik
C. positivism
D. transcendentalism

24. Which nineteenth-century writer helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr.'s protest marches?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. George Sand

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25. Which nineteenth-century writer has been called "the first, modern liberated woman"?
A. George Sand
B. George Eliot
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Mrs. Gaskell

26. England's most popular writer of realist fiction was


A. Charlotte Bront.
B. Charles Dickens.
C. George Eliot.
D. Elizabeth Gaskell.

27. One innovation of Dostoyevsky, the Russian realist, was


A. a first-person narrative style.
B. stream-of-consciousness writing.
C. the antihero type.
D. the socialist novel.

28. Flaubert, in his Madame Bovary, made his heroine a(n)


A. ideal wife for other women to emulate.
B. woman caught up in her unrealistic dreams.
C. symbol of the corruption of French politics.
D. innocent victim of a cruel class-conscious society.

29. War and Peace is the masterpiece written by


A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
B. Anton Chekhov.
C. Leo Tolstoy.
D. Balzac.

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30. ________ emerged in the period immediately before the American Civil War.
A. Science fiction
B. The utopian novel
C. The slave narrative
D. The thriller

31. Which of the following was one of the first great modern books in the West to be written
by a person of color?
A. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
B. Crime and Punishment
C. North and South
D. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

32. Who delivered the famous "Ain't I a Woman"? speech?


A. Sojourner Truth
B. Emily Dickinson
C. George Sand
D. Charlotte Bront

33. What neoclassical painter controlled French academic art until his death in 1867?
A. Delacroix
B. Ingres
C. Courbet
D. Manet

34. All of these are products of the romantic style EXCEPT


A. Ingres's The Turkish Bath.
B. Delacroix's Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard.
C. Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament, London.
D. Verdi's Rigoletto.

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35. Which painter was a leading figure in the Barbizon school?


A. Delacroix
B. Manet
C. Millet
D. Constable

36. The artist most identified with militant realism in painting is


A. Delacroix.
B. Ingres.
C. Courbet.
D. Manet.

37. Courbet's painting called Interior of My Studio


A. uses images taken from Greek mythology.
B. romanticizes the figures in the painting.
C. summarizes his approach to art up to this time.
D. shows the influence of neoclassicism.

38. The key element in Daumier's approach to painting was


A. a love of exotic scenes.
B. a fascination with fiery action.
C. his satirical eye.
D. a feeling for the geometry underlying nature.

39. In what sense could Manet be called the first modern painter?
A. He opened the door to abstraction.
B. He originated the tradition of "art for art's sake".
C. He paved the way for expressionism.
D. He pioneered the cubist style.

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40. Rosa Bonheur was


A. a romantic landscape artist who offered escapism for the French middle class.
B. an artist whose neoclassical style was favored by Napoleon III.
C. the daughter of a famous French painter who capitalized on her father's name.
D. a member of the realist school who was influenced by science.

41. Which nineteenth-century photographer made a famous photograph of Abraham Lincoln


during Lincoln's run for the U.S. presidency?
A. William Henry Fox Talbot
B. Julia Margaret Cameron
C. Eadweard Muybridge
D. Mathew Brady

42. Romantic music was in part characterized by the


A. movement toward abstract composition.
B. abandonment of classical forms of music.
C. use of folk songs and ethnic dance rhythms.
D. trend toward atonality.

43. The composer of the opera Rigoletto is


A. Verdi.
B. Puccini.
C. Wagner.
D. Brahms.

44. Who wrote under the pen name George Eliot?


A. Elizabeth Gaskell
B. Mary Ann Evans
C. George Sand
D. Emily Dickinson

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45. Which composer was the hero of the traditionalists who opposed the music of Wagner?
A. Verdi
B. Schubert
C. Brahms
D. Chopin

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Essay Questions
46. Define the terms liberalism and nationalism as understood in Europe before 1848, and
note examples of their impact on European affairs.
Answers will vary

47. Why were the 1830 and1848 revolutions significant? Did they represent a turning point in
nineteenth-century culture and politics? Explain.
Answers will vary

48. Compare and contrast realism in English and Russian literature with reference to the
works of Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Answers will vary

49. What was realpolitik? Who were its chief proponents? How did it influence politics after
1848?
Answers will vary

50. What were the causes and the outcome of the American Civil War? Explain this war
within the context of general trends in the West during the nineteenth century.
Answers will vary

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51. Was the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, London, a fitting symbol of the "Age
of the Bourgeoisie"? Explain.
Answers will vary

52. Discuss the philosophies of Mill and Bentham. How were they representative of bourgeois
liberalism?
Answers will vary

53. How did romantic music change during this Age of the Bourgeoisie? What forces were
operating on music and causing its change?
Answers will vary

54. What scientific advances were made between 1830 and 1871? What impact did these
advances have on the development of cultural styles?
Answers will vary

55. Explain the rise of realism in relation to the prevailing styles of neoclassicism and
romanticism.
Answers will vary

56. Discuss the achievements of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and their contributions
to American poetry.
Answers will vary

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