- 1. Which city serves as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
A) Vladivostok
B) Moscow
C) St. Petersburg
D) Irkutsk
- 2. What is the western terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
A) Beijing
B) Vladivostok
C) Moscow
D) St. Petersburg
- 3. Which railway branch connects with the Trans-Siberian line at Ulan-Ude in Russia?
A) Great Western Railway
B) Trans-Mongolian Railway
C) Baikal–Amur Mainline
D) Trans-Manchurian Railway
- 4. Which lake alongside the Trans-Siberian Railway is known as the 'Pearl of Siberia'?
A) Lake Ladoga
B) Lake Baikal
C) Caspian Sea
D) Lake Onega
- 5. In which Russian city can travelers switch to the Circum-Baikal Railway, a historic rail line near Lake Baikal?
A) Krasnoyarsk
B) Irkutsk
C) Yekaterinburg
D) Novosibirsk
- 6. Which famous author wrote a novel featuring the Trans-Siberian Railway titled 'The Great Railway Bazaar'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Paul Theroux
D) Jules Verne
- 7. Which major river does the Trans-Siberian Railway cross near the city of Krasnoyarsk?
A) Volga River
B) Yenisei River
C) Amur River
D) Ob River
- 8. Which autonomous republic in Russia does the Trans-Siberian Railway pass through between the cities of Ulan-Ude and Chita?
A) Karelia
B) Tatarstan
C) Chechnya
D) Buryatia
- 9. Which European city can travelers reach using the Trans-Siberian Railway and a subsequent connection through the Channel Tunnel?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Berlin
D) Madrid
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