Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Who was Emmeline
Pankhurst?
a. | the wife of Senator
Pankhurst | c. | Leader of
Suffragette movement in England | b. | an American Suffragette | d. | Female military leader |
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In the early 1800s who was able
to vote in England?
a. | All men and women over
21 | c. | Men of any
age | b. | All men and women over 18 | d. | Men who owned property |
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Which group had the real power
in England to run the government?
a. | the upper
classes | c. | the
poor | b. | the middle class officials | d. | the church of England |
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Who got the right to vote in
England by the Reform Bill of 1832?
a. | the lower
classes | c. | the middle
classes | b. | only the upper classes | d. | women |
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In the early 1800s a group of
people presented a charter to the parliament in England. Which reform below was NOT requested by the
Chartist Movement?
a. | vote for
women | c. | secret
voting | b. | vote for all men | d. | Parliament reforms |
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6.
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Victoria was ruler of England
for 64 years. After reforms, she lost much of her power to Parliament. Who assumed most of the power
in England?
a. | House of
Lourdes | c. | the Prime
Minister | b. | King George V | d. | the Church of England |
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Emmeline Pankhurst formed the
Women’s Social and Political Union in England. Which strategy below did women use to get the
vote?
a. | protest
marches | c. | hunger
strikes | b. | willingness to go to jail | d. | all of these |
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8.
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At a horse race, with the king
watching, Emily Davidson committed suicide by walking onto the race track in front of the horses.
What issue was she trying to call attention to?
a. | child
labor | c. | more employment for the
poor | b. | anti World War I | d. | womens suffrage |
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In France an army officer named
Alfred Dreyfus was accused of being a German spy. He was stripped of his medals and convicted of
treason. Later he was declared innocent. Many people feel that Dreyfus was persecuted because
............
a. | he was partly
German | c. | he was
Jewish | b. | he was poor | d. | he supported Donald Trump |
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Theodore Herzl was father of
the Zionist movement. What was the main goal of Zionism?
a. | hunting for former Nazi
leaders | c. | suffrage for
Jewish men | b. | Jewish homeland in Palestine | d. | Socialism |
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11.
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Before the passage of the
Reform Bill of 1832, the percentage of the British population that had voting rights was
about
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12.
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The Reform Bill of 1832 lowered
the property requirements for voting in order to give voting
rights to
a. | poor
men | c. | urban working class
men. | b. | rural working class men | d. | wealthy middle class men |
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Matching
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a. | suffrage | e. | Chartist | b. | Emmeline Pankhurst | f. | Prime Minister | c. | anti-Semitism | g. | Victoria | d. | Alfred Dreyfus | h. | Emily Davidson |
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13.
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French army officer unfairly
persecuted
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14.
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Queen of England for most of
the 1800s
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15.
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This movement pressed for
political reforms in England
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the right to
vote
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17.
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leader of Suffrage movement in
England
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18.
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political leader in
England
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19.
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she sacrificed her life for
Womens Suffrage
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20.
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prejudice against
Jews
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