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6. The name of the war which ultimately allowed Italian troops to take Rome

  • Franco-Austrian
  • Austro-Prussian
  • Franco-Prussian
  • Anglo-Prussian

7. Approximately what percentage of 'Italians' spoke Italian in 1860

  • Two
  • Five
  • Ten
  • Fifteen

8. The month in which the Italians declared war on Austria following the declaration of war between Prussia and Austria

  • May
  • June
  • April
  • July

9. The name given to the changing of the old states into Piedmontese states

  • Piedmontisation
  • Cavourisation
  • Victor Emmanuelisation
  • Garibaldisation

10. The name of the document issued by the Pope in December 1864 which refused to recognise the Italian state and also attacked Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species'

  • Book of Sins
  • Treaty of Rome
  • Syllabus of Errors
  • Second Papal Allocution

11. The alternative name given to Garibaldi's Red Shirts, the ....

  • Fifty
  • Five Hundred
  • Thousand
  • Three Hundred

12. In 1860, the tactic that Cavour used to gain control of the Central Duchies

  • Plebiscites
  • War
  • Negotiation
  • Garibaldi's Red Shirts

13. The name of Garibaldi's home island

  • Caprera
  • Malta
  • Corsica
  • Sardinia

14. The place where, on the 26th October 1860, Victor Emmanuel II and Garibaldi met to discuss a compramise

  • Teano
  • Volturno
  • Castelfidaro
  • Rieti

15. Bismark met Napoleon in October 1865 to broker an anti-Austrian deal. Where did they meet?

  • Paris
  • Biarritz
  • Marseille
  • Souston

16. The battle in October 1860 where Garibaldi's army decisively beat the Neapolitan army

  • Volturno
  • Solferino
  • Castelfidaro
  • Magenta

17. The name of the rebel war that lasted in the South between 1861-65, and took more lives than the wars of unification

  • Brigands
  • Neapolitan
  • Sicilian
  • Southern

18. The battle on 3rd November 1867 where Garibaldi's troops attempted to take Rome but were 'mown down' by the French

  • Mentana
  • Rome
  • Umbria
  • The Marches

19. The name of Garibaldi's trusted deputy, who persuaded him to go and capture Sicily following an insurrection in 1860

  • Cani
  • Clumpi
  • Crispi
  • Croce

20. The name of Cavour's envoy sent to (unsuccessfully) negotiate the annexation of Sicily to Piedmont in July 1860

  • La Farina
  • Croce
  • Pilo
  • Crispi