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6. The name of the Treaty that formally ended the Franco Piedmont-Austrian war

  • Turin
  • Zurich
  • Lucerne
  • Paris

7. The name of the battle that took place on the 24th June 1859

  • Custozza
  • Novara
  • Solferino
  • Magenta

8. As a young man and prior to his Kingship, Louis Napoleon had taken part in which liberal Italian rebellion in 1831?

  • Naples
  • Modena
  • Papal States
  • Parma

9. The society founded in 1856 in Piedmont, with the aim of promoting Italian Unity

  • Piedmontese
  • Royal
  • National
  • Italian

10. The number of Piedmontese men lost in battle at the fall of Sebastopol

  • Fourteen
  • Ten
  • Twelve
  • Sixteen

11. On the 14th January 1858, who led a plot to assassinate Louis Napoleon at the Opera in Paris?

  • Orsini
  • Pallavicino
  • Garibaldi
  • La Farina

12. The alternative name for the Austrian empire

  • Habsburg
  • Pitzburg
  • Franzburg
  • Ottoman

13. Following a brief resignation in 1859, who returned to be Prime Minister of Piedmont on 21st January 1860?

  • Gioberti
  • Cavour
  • Balbo
  • D'Azeglio

14. The month in 1852 in which Cavour was asked by Victor Emmanuel II to become Prime Minister of Piedmont

  • November
  • December
  • October
  • September

15. The name of the place where the armistice between Austria and France was signed on 11th July 1859

  • Plombieres
  • Solferino
  • Villafranca
  • Magenta

16. The name of the Prussian economic policy that gave Prussia the upper hand over Austria in European Trade and Economics over Autria

  • Fascherein
  • Zollverein
  • Zehnerein
  • Germerein

17. The location of the secret meeting that took place on 20th July 1858

  • Paris
  • Turin
  • Plombieres
  • Villafranca

18. The two provinces promised to France in return for military support against Austria

  • Parma & Savoy
  • Parma & Nice
  • Nice & Savoy
  • Savoy & Modena

19. The name of the Parliamentary alliance between the Centre-Right and the Centre-Left in late 1851/early 1852

  • Il Statuto
  • Connubio
  • Costituente
  • Siccardi

20. The name of Garibaldi's specialist guerilla corps of 3000 devoted men who lived in the mountains & forests and launched small scale attacks on the Austrians

  • Alpine Hunters
  • Forest Poachers
  • Red Wolves
  • Black Hands