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Pregunta de Selección Múltiple
1. Select the correct sentence(s) from the list below.
a. Political emigrants met with warm reception and assistance from local governments in all European countries.
b. Not in all European countries, emigrants could to freely carry out political activities.
c. The financial situation of emigrants was good due to compensations, which were paid by the Russian government for their lost property in the country.
d. Emigrants created many organizations and political parties, which were referring to different ideologies, from conservatism to socialism.



2. Specify the social groups that were forced to emigrate from their native countries in the nineteenth century:
a. Politicians engaged in patriotic activities which was referred as illegal.
b. Soldiers taking part in the fight against the armed forces of legal authorities.
c. People accused of economic crimes.
d. People propagating views dangerous to the country from the government point of view.



Pregunta de Selección Múltiple
1. From the countries listed below, select those which were targets of Polish emigrants in the nineteenth century:
a. France.
b. Denmark.
c. Habsburg Monarchy.
d. Spain.
e. England.
f. Switzerland.



2. From the countries that did not adopt Polish emigrants one can mention:
a. Countries under the rule of the Habsburgs (Austrian Empire, the Duchies of northern Italy) due to their extremely conservative nature and policy of implementing the objectives of the Holy Alliance.
b. Switzerland – because of the mountainous landscape and the difficulty of travelling within that country.
c. Germany – due to the contribution of the state to the Holy Alliance and partitions of Poland.
d. The United States – because of too high cost of travel.



Pregunta de Selección Múltiple
1. The events that gained sympathies among some European countries to the Poles and created warm reception in the West of the continent are:
a. The July Revolution in France.
b. The wave of famine which swept through Europe in 1930.
c. Belgian Revolution August-September 1830.
d. The Spanish national liberation war with Napoleon's France.



2. Poles were friendly greeted by societies in Western Europe because:
a. Polish soldiers were considered particularly handsome.
b. Many Europeans sympathise with objectives of the Polish fight – freedom and democracy.
c. Uneven but the heroic struggle of the weaker Polish nation with powerful state of Russian tsars brought sympathy.



Pregunta de Selección Múltiple
1. Frederic Chopin became a political exile and applied for asylum in France because (choose one):
a. He participated in the November Uprising, for which he was sentenced to exile.
b. He left Poland shortly before the outbreak of the uprising. But he could not come back because of repression imposed by the Russian government.
c. Living and working in France were associated with greater prestige for an artist.



2. From the musical forms used by Chopin, choose those whose typical Polish character caused that this composer's music was of patriotic and national character:
a. Mazurkas.
b. Sonata.
c. Polonaises.
d. Musical improvisation.
e. Preludes.