Quiz: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany

11 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What “incurable malady” does the article diagnose in the Frankfurt democrats? Chronic revolutionary impatience Hegelian philosophical idealism Parliamentary cretinism Excessive national pride
2. On how many points did the proletarian party distinguish itself from the petty-bourgeois democrats in 1848? Eleven Twelve One Three
3. Who commanded the insurgent forces defending Vienna? Kossuth Perczel Blum Messenhauser
4. Which ministers formed the Prussian liberal ministry of 1848 that kept the old army and bureaucracy intact? Brandenburg and Manteuffel Stein and Hardenberg Camphausen and Hansemann Bismarck and Roon
5. Who dispersed the Slavonic Congress in Prague in 1848? Jellačić Wrangel Field Marshal Radetzky Windischgrätz
6. Through whom did Marx come to write for the New York Tribune? Horace Greeley’s private secretary in New York Ferdinand Lassalle, his friend in Düsseldorf Ernest Jones, the Chartist leader in London Charles A. Dana, its managing editor
7. Which agreement, accepted by the Frankfurt Assembly in September 1848, destroyed its popularity? The armistice of Malmö with Denmark The Treaty of Olmütz with the Austrian Empire The Treaty of London over Schleswig-Holstein The Peace of Prague
8. Which King of Prussia had the German bourgeoisie pinned its hopes on? William I Frederick William III Frederick William IV Frederick the Great
9. What is described as the “universal instrument of Austrian justice”? The gallows The stick The confessional The census
10. Which religious movement served as a cover for political opposition in the smaller states? The Old Lutherans of Silesia and Pomerania The German Catholics and Free Congregations The Pietists of the Wupper valley and Württemberg The Jesuits
11. Which Silesian deputy was shouted down at Frankfurt for proposing to outlaw the Regent? William Wolff Ludwig Simon of Trier Wilhelm Schulz of Darmstadt Karl Vogt of Giessen

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