Judge for yourself how prepared you are. Here is the 2-hour exam in European History that all high school students had to pass in 1926 for entrance into university. I hope you would all be able to join the incoming class of ’30. (No prizes for noticing that the test focused exclusively on political content, and was, thereby, certainly deficient according to modern standards.)

Group I (required):    Name one statesman (not a king) famous in the history of the nineteenth century in each of the following countries: England, Germany, France, Italy. Write as fully as you can on one, and give one important event in connection with each of the other three.

Group II (answer two):

1. How and when were the first two French Republics established, and by whom was each brought to an end?
2. Compare the power of the German Emperor with that of the British King in 1914, and the power of the German Chancellor with that of the British Prime Minister in 1914.
3. Name the more important states or provinces which made up the empire of Francis Joseph. Tell what the present status of each of these countries is.
4. Describe the encroachments of the great powers upon China in the last hundred years.

Group IV (answer one):

1. Show how the Industrial Revolution affected (a) the relations of labor and capital, (b) the struggle for colonies, (c) the growth of democracy.
2. What did Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, and Joseph II do to merit the name of ‘enlightened despots’?
3. In what wars has Italy been involved by her expansionist policy since 1890? Discuss the particular aims of Italy in the World War, and show to what extent she was successful in realizing them.

Group V (required):    Indicate which of the statements below are true and which are false.

1. Louis XIV protected the Huguenots.
2. England remained neutral in the War of Spanish Succession
3. The Frankfurt Parliament offered Frederick William the crown of a united Germany in 1848.
4. The Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Pope remained in force until the 20th century.
5. England gained Gibraltar by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
6. Prussia took part in all three partitions of Poland.
7. Frederick the Great refused to abide by the Pragmatic Sanction.
8. Napoleon was defeated at the battle of Leipzig.
9. Kossuth was the leader of the Bohemian revolt in 1848
10. Mazzini favored the establishment of a limited monarchy in Italy.
11. Gambetta was a famous Italian patriot.
12. Lloyd George was Prime Minister of England at the beginning of the World War.
13. Holland remained neutral in the World War.
14. Disraeli represented England at the Berlin Congress of 1878.
15. Kitchener rescued Gordon at Khartoum.
16. The North German Confederation was formed after the Austro-Prussian War.
17. Charles X of France was deposed by the revolution of 1848.
18. The Treaty of Utrecht recognized Louis XIV’s grandson as King of Spain.
19. Voltaire wrote the Social Contract
20. Italy gained Venice as a result of the Austro-Prussian War.

Group VI: Name and locate on the map

• One French colony in Asia
• One colony in Africa lost by Germany in the World War
• One Dutch colony in the East Indies
• One Colony lost by Spain in the Spanish-American War
• A battlefield on which Napoleon was defeated
• A city that France lost in 1871 and regained in 1919
• The place to which Napoleon was banished in 1814
• The city in France held by the English until 1558
• The place where Louis XIV built his palace
• A Russian fortress taken by siege in the Crimean War
• The capital of Hungary
• The island conquered by Garibaldi in 1860