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Quiz for Primary Source 21.1: Metternich: Conservative Reaction in the German Confederation

Question

1. How did the Karlsbad Decrees seek to ensure that university faculty would promote the interests and point of view of the government?

By making all university faculty direct employees of the state

By creating an official state curriculum for each subject

By installing a government overseer in each university

By placing the selection of all university faculty in the hands of the prime minister

Correct. The answer is c. In addition to placing a government agent in each university, the decrees required the German states to fire faculty members who supported “harmful doctrines hostile to public order or subversive of existing governmental institutions.”

Incorrect. The answer is c. In addition to placing a government agent in each university, the decrees required the German states to fire faculty members who supported “harmful doctrines hostile to public order or subversive of existing governmental institutions.”

Question

2. Which of these was established by the Karlsbad Decrees?

Strict limits on religious toleration

State censorship of the press

Mandatory military service

State control of prices and wages

Correct. The answer is b. By the terms of the decree, only newspapers and journals that supported the government’s point of view were to be allowed.

Incorrect. The answer is b. By the terms of the decree, only newspapers and journals that supported the government’s point of view were to be allowed.