Russia Practice Test

This country tried, unsuccessfully, to invade Russia in WWII?
1. Germany
2. France
3. Spain
4. The Netherlands
Change from state-run to privately owned companies
1. Privatization
2. Public Property
3. Communism
4. Socialism
The Upper-Class of Communism
1. Bourgeoisie
2. Proletariat
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
1. The world's longest continues railroad line
2. The best way to gravel between Russia and Afghanistan
3. The major link between Moscow and Europe.
4. The shortest railroad in Siberia.
Philosophy calling for greater economic equality in Society.
1. Democracy
2. Communism/Socialism
3. Czarism
4. None of the above
What Russian cultural achievement is pictured here?
1. Faberge Eggs
2. Ballet
3. Folk Music
4. None of the above
This sea is shrinking due to over use for irrigation.
1. Black
2. Aral
3. Caspian
4. Mediterranean
Original capital of Russia.
1. Moscow
2. St. Petersburg
3. Vladivostok
4. Kiev
Ruthless leader of the USSR after Lenin's death.
1. Karl Marx
2. Mikhail Gorbachev
3. Joseph Stalin
4. Adolf Hitler
Loose union of city-states organized by the Varangians.
1. Kievan Rus
2. Muscovites
3. Golden Horde
4. None of the above
Ethnic group that includes Chechens and Dagestan.
1. Slavic Peoples
2. Ethnic Russians
3. Caucasian Peoples
4. Turkic Peoples
Group that includes ethnic Russians, Poles, and Serbs.
1. Indo-Europeans
2. Slavic People
3. Turkic Peoples
4. None of the above.
The working people under Communism
1. Bourgeoisie
2. Proletariat
Communism promotes this type of "religion"
1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Judaism
4. Atheism
Political party of Lenin.
1. Bolshevik
2. Republican
3. Democratic
4. Whig
People who drove out the Mongols in the late 1400's.
1. Muscovites
2. Kievan Rus
3. Barbarians
4. Czars
The leader of the Orthodox church is called the
1. Patriarch
2. Pope
3. Priest
4. Bishop
Most workers cannot afford to pay for
1. goods on the high priced black market
2. goods on the legal black market
3. any of their clothes
4. bus transportation
River in Siberia, flow north into the Arctic Ocean.
1. Rhine
2. Seine
3. Ob
4. Danube
The Cold War:
1. made little impact upon the daily lives of Soviet citizens.
2. put a great deal of pressure on the Soviet economy.
3. last for about 10 years.
4. Strengthen the Soviet Union's stance in international opinion.
This type of industry was favored by the Soviet Union
1. Light
2. Heavy
3. Tourism
4. Consumer
Area that is home to most of Russia's people.
1. Siberia
2. Central Siberian Uplands
3. North European Plain
4. Tundra
What agricultural product was grown by irrigation from the Aral sea?
1. Grapes
2. Wheat
3. Corn
4. Cotton
Second largest family of ethnic groups in Russia.
1. Turkic Peoples
2. Ethnic Russians
3. Caucasian Peoples
4. Mongolian Peoples
German philosopher who advocated a classless society.
1. Siddhartha Gautama
2. Socrates
3. Karl Marx
4. Adolf Hitler
Fortress built in Moscow by Ivan the Great (III).
1. St. Basil's Cathedral
2. Red Square
3. Kremlin
4. Great Wall of Moscow
Slavs include which of the following?
1. Ethnic Russians, Poles, and Serbs
2. Tatars and Caucasians
3. Chechens and Bolsheviks
4. All of the above.
Organized persecution and massacres of Jewish people under the Czars.
1. Holocaust
2. Diaspora
3. Pogroms
4. Ghetto
Which statements about the Soviet economy is accurate.
1. It was run by corporations and banks.
2. It was controlled by foreign investors.
3. It was completely controlled by the government.
4. It was allowed to meet market supply and demand.
What was a serf?
1. A peasant farmer who worked as a virtual slave.
2. A trainer of horses for the Czar's army.
3. A small landowner who worked for the Czars.
4. A servant of the Czars, who lived in the Kremlin.
Country once controlled by the Soviet Union.
1. Satellite State
2. CIS
3. CCCP
4. USSR
Creator of the Kremlin in Moscow
1. Peter the Great
2. Catherine the Great
3. Czar Nicholas II
4. Ivan the III (The Great)
Group represented by more than 80% of the people of Russia.
1. Caucasian Peoples
2. Ethnic Russians
3. Mongols
4. None of the above
What famous Russian building is pictured here?
1. Kremlin
2. Red Square
3. Soviet Style Apartment Building
4. St. Basil's Cathedral
Russia depends primarily upon __________ for transportation
1. cars and trucks
2. airplanes and cars
3. railroads and waterways
4. subways and trucks
System under which the government makes all key economic decisions.
1. Command Economy
2. Market Economy
3. Traditional Economy
4. Mixed Economy
Which statement is true of a market economy?
1. All means of production are owned by the state.
2. Prices are set by a committee of business leaders.
3. Prices are set by supply and demand.
4. Corporations are controlled by the government.
Region that makes up about 75% of Russia's land, but only has 25% of the population.
1. North European Plain
2. Tundra
3. Siberia
4. Taiga
What famous Russian building is pictured here?
1. Kremlin
2. Russian Orthodox Church
3. St. Basil's Cathedral
4. Red Square
Site at which residents protest pollution from paper pulp factory, also the largest freshwater lake in the world.
1. Lake Como
2. Great Lakes
3. Lake Baikal
4. None of the above
Large factory farm.
1. Commune
2. Sovkhoz
3. Chernozem
4. None of the above.
The main idea behind _____________ is that economic wealth should be distributed more evenly.
1. Socialism/Communism
2. Capitalism
3. Glasnost
4. Romanticism
Area whose name means "barren land".
1. Tundra
2. Taiga
3. Central Siberian Plateau
4. North European Plain
The Turkic peoples are the
1. Largest family of ethnic groups in Russia.
2. Smallest ethnic group in Russia.
3. Most vigorously persecuted of all Russians.
4. Second largest ethnic group in Russia.
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1. Pope
2. Patriarch
First leader of the Soviet Union
1. Vladimir Lenin
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Karl Marx
4. Vladimir Putin
The Tundra is
1. A humid continental area in southern Russia.
2. The climate of ALL Russia.
3. A very cold region in the north with sparse vegetation.
4. A warm region in the south with lush vegetation.
Russia's air, water, and soil were damaged by
1. The Russian revolution
2. The program of perestroika
3. Soviet disregard for the effects of industrialization
4. Free-market forces for change from within the Soviet Union.
Soviet Satellite countries were
1. Able to petition the Soviet government for independence.
2. under the control of the Soviet Union.
3. Areas in which Soviet aerospace industry developed.
4. Countries that controlled the USSR.
Prince Vladimir adopted____________________ as the official religion of Russia.
1. Buddhism
2. Greek Orthodox Christianity.
3. Judaism
4. Islam.
Area of Russia in which the highest point is found.
1. Caucasus Mountains
2. Alps
3. Pyrenees
4. Kamchatka Peninsula
Site of a terrible nuclear accident in 1986.
1. Chernobyl.
2. Chernozem
3. Kamchatka
4. None of the above.
In general Russia has a ___________________ climate.
1. mild
2. tropical
3. desert
4. cold
During WWII the Germans were
1. above to govern Russia for five years.
2. forced back by the Russian military.
3. victorious because of Russian surrenders.
4. forced back by the harsh winter and Russian army.
1. Faberge Egg
2. Matroschka Dolls
3. St. Basil's
Russia has _______________________ because most of the country is far from any ocean.
1. An insufficient number of ports.
2. Hot Summers and mild winters
3. A very cold Climate
4. Difficulty producing enough crops to feed its own people.
After the USSR broke up, the government encouraged
1. foreign countries to take over all farms and businesses.
2. private ownership of formerly state run farms and businesses.
3. people to stop owning farms and businesses.
4. continuation government control
Body of water that has no outlet to the ocean.
1. Aral Sea
2. Caspian Sea
3. Black Sea
4. None of the above
Which statement about Lake Baikal is accurate?
1. It holds one-fifth of the world's salt water
2. It is home to a very small number of plants and animal species.
3. It holds one-fifth of the world's freshwater
4. It is a vacation destination for many Russians.
What is the Taiga?
1. Hugh lake in Siberia
2. Resort area on the Baltic Sea
3. Enormous region of forest
4. Excusive section of Moscow
The move from ________________________ is known as privatization.
1. Privately owned companies to state-run companies.
2. State-run companies to private run companies
3. A market to command economy
4. Capitalism to Communism.
What is the current capital of Russia?
1. Moscow
2. St. Petersburg
3. Kiev
4. Vladivostok
Largest and most important river in Russia.
1. Tiber
2. Volga
3. Vistula
4. Ob
Current President of Russia
1. Michael Gorbachev
2. Boris Yeltsin
3. Vladimir Putin
4. Nicholas Kruchev
Term that means self-rule
1. Totalitarian
2. Monarchy
3. Sovereignty
4. Dictatorship
The Soviet government made _____________ a priority
1. Environmental controls
2. small farms and road building
3. heavy industry
4. All of the above.
Policy of Openness instituted by Michael Gorbachev
1. Glasnost
2. Perestroika
What Russian religion is associated with this type of building?
1. Buddhism
2. Islam
3. Christianity
4. Judaism
What is this Russian item?
1. Matroschka Doll
2. Samovar
3. Faberge Egg
What is this Russian cultural item?
1. Faberge Egg
2. Matroschka Doll
3. Samovar
What type of Russian religion is associated with this building?
1. Islam
2. Russian Orthodox Christianity
3. Judaism
4. Buddhism
What is the traditional language of the Russian Orthodox Church
1. Latin
2. Greek
What religion of Russia does one associate this icon with?
1. Buddhism
2. Islam
3. Russian Orthodox Christianity
4. None of the above

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