Question

Read the following extract/source carefully and answer the following questions:
'The aim of the Zollverein is to bind the Germans economically into a nation. It will strengthen
the nation materially as much by protecting its interests externally as by stimulating its internal
productivity. It ought to awaken and raise national sentiment through a fusion of individual and
provincial interests. The German people have realised that a free economic system is the only
means to engender national feeling.'

(1) Zollverein was formed at the initiative of
(a) Italy
(b) Prussia
(c) England
(d) France

(2) The basic objective of Zollverein was
(a) Political freedom
(b) Economic freedom
(c) Social freedom
(d) Unification of Italy


(3) "The aim of the Zollverein is to bind the Germans economically into a nation." Was said by
(a) Friedrich
(b) Napoleon
(c) Giuseppe Mazzini
(d) Kaiser William - I

(4) Which of the following was a step taken under Zollverein?
(i) Abolishing tariff barriers
(ii) Reducing number of currencies
(a) Only (i)
(b) Only (ii)
(c) Both (i) and (ii)
(d) None of these​

Answer 1

zollverein was formed at the initiative of