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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.
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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.
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d. Emigrants created many organizations and political parties, which
were referring to different ideologies, from conservatism to socialism.
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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.
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c. People accused of economic crimes.
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d. People propagating views dangerous to the country from the government point of view.
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1. From the countries listed below, select those which were targets of Polish emigrants in the nineteenth century:
a. France.
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b. Denmark.
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c. Habsburg Monarchy.
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d. Spain.
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e. England.
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f. Switzerland.
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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.
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b. Switzerland – because of the mountainous landscape and the difficulty of travelling within that country.
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c. Germany – due to the contribution of the state to the Holy Alliance and partitions of Poland.
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d. The United States – because of too high cost of travel.
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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.
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b. The wave of famine which swept through Europe in 1930. | |
c. Belgian Revolution August-September 1830.
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d. The Spanish national liberation war with Napoleon's France.
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2. Poles were friendly greeted by societies in Western Europe because:
a. Polish soldiers were considered particularly handsome.
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b. Many Europeans sympathise with objectives of the Polish fight – freedom and democracy.
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c. Uneven but the heroic struggle of the weaker Polish nation with powerful state of Russian tsars brought sympathy.
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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.
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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.
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c. Living and working in France were associated with greater prestige for an artist.
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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.
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b. Sonata.
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c. Polonaises.
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d. Musical improvisation.
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e. Preludes.
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