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Question 1

When was the Risorgimento?

Answer 1

1859-70

Question 2

When did Garibaldi and 1,000 Red Shirts invade Sicily and conquer it?

Answer 2

1859

Question 3

When was the Kingdom of Italy established?

Answer 3

1861

Question 4

Who described Italy by saying “leave them to themselves and they split into fragments”?

Answer 4

Luigi Bianchi

Question 5

Who said “we have made Italy-now we must make Italians”?

Answer 5

Piedmontese Statesman D’Azeglio

Question 6

What were truancy rates?

Answer 6

80%

Question 7

What improvements in literacy rates were seen?

Answer 7

1901: 55%, 1906: 74%

Question 8

What % of population was illiterate?

Answer 8

70%

Question 9

What % Italy spoke Italian?

Answer 9

2%

Question 10

Who described Italy as a “geographical expression”?

Answer 10

Austrian Statesman Metternich

Question 11

What % could vote due to eligibility?

Answer 11

2%

Question 12

When was free trade abandoned and major tariffs introduced?

Answer 12

1878 and 1887

Question 13

What % of working population employed in agriculture?

Answer 13

60%

Question 14

How much railway was built in 1870?

Answer 14

6,400km

Question 15

What % of Italy’s imports were coal?

Answer 15

12%

Question 16

What was steel and coal production in 1914?

Answer 16

Steel-less than 500,000 tonnes; coal 11.5m.

Question 17

What % of population was illiterate in 1871?

Answer 17

88%

Question 18

What % of Italy army were rejected to poor health?

Answer 18

38%

Question 19

How many died from cholera, typhoid and malaria in 1884-86?

Answer 19

50,00; 27,000; 15,000

Question 20

In 1861 how many bishops arrested?

Answer 20

66 bishops

Question 21

In 1866 how many religious orders abandoned including marriage law and education?

Answer 21

25,000

Question 22

When was Rome and other Papal states seized from the church?

Answer 22

1870

Question 23

What did the Pope release in 1870?

Answer 23

Non-expedition

Question 24

How much did the Pope get offered in compensation?

Answer 24

3.25m

Question 25

What was social Catholicism?

Answer 25

Opera dei Congressi

Question 26

What were the changes in national income between 1899-1907 and 1914?

Answer 26

38% then further 20%

Question 27

What did industrial production grow by between 1899-1907?

Answer 27

7.1%

Question 28

What did the economy grow by between 1899-1907?

Answer 28

3.4%

Question 29

Who founded the Bank of England in 1893?

Answer 29

Gillette

Question 30

Who described Italy as an “industrial take-off”?

Answer 30

Historian Gerschenkron

Question 31

How many kW electricity was generated by HEP in 1898?

Answer 31

50,000

Question 32

What did steel production increase from in 1900 to 1913?

Answer 32

140,000 to 930,000

Question 33

What was the yield in the north and south?

Answer 33

North 1.3 tons per hectare and south 0.6

Question 34

In 1914 how many people did the sugar refinery employ?

Answer 34

13,000

Question 35

In 1912-13 what % people emigrated from south compared to in 1881?

Answer 35

44% and 27%

Question 36

How many Italians leave

Italy for America?

Answer 36

600,000 a year

Question 37

What year were more than half of South illiterate?

Answer 37

1911

Question 38

What % illiterate in Calabria compared to national average of 38%?

Answer 38

70%

Question 39

What was the infant mortality rate in 5 year olds?

Answer 39

40%

Question 40

When did the budget for armed forces and navy double?

Answer 40

1907-13

Question 41

When did the economy start to decline?

Answer 41

1908