- 1. Which of these is NOT a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States?
A) Armenia
B) Lithuania
C) Russia
D) Moldova
- 2. Who is the current president of Russia, handpicked by Putin?
A) Medvedev
B) Gorbachev
C) Kruschev
D) Yeltsin
- 3. During the Rise of Muscovy, Moscow became a major city and what else happened?
A) Broke from Mongol influence
B) Mongols captured Moscow
C) Vikings captured Moscow
D) Communism began
- 4. Approximately how many Russians were killed during Stalin's reign?
A) 20,000,000
B) 2,000
C) 200,000
D) 20,000
- 5. Who was the first czar of Russia?
A) Ivan III (the Great)
B) Peter I (the Great)
C) Ivan IV (the Terrible)
D) Nicholas II
- 6. What is the name of Stalin's "secret police"?
A) FBI
B) CIS
C) CIA
D) KGB
- 7. Who wrote the "Communist Manifesto"?
A) Ernest Hemmingway
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Karl Marx
D) Josef Stalin
- 8. A system of social organization based on the control of all property by the government.
A) Communism
B) Perestroika
C) Glasnost
D) Coup
- 9. Gorbachev's economic restructuring, means "rebuilding".
A) Perestroika
B) Glasnost
C) Coup
D) Communism
- 10. Gorbachev's social reform, means "openness", and gave more freedom to the Soviet people.
A) Communism
B) Collectivism
C) Glasnost
D) Perestroika
- 11. Who was appointed president of Russia on January 1, 2000?
A) Yeltsin
B) Putin
C) Medvedev
D) Gorbachev
- 12. After the fall of Communism, eleven of the former Soviet republics joined together to form the:
A) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
B) Russia
C) Commonwealth of Independent States
D) Community of Indescribable Serfs
- 13. Who was the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A) Yeltsin
B) Stalin
C) Kruschev
D) Brezhnev
- 14. The 1917 revolution was led by a group of people who followed a new system of government known as Communism. What was this group of people known as?
A) Czars
B) Missionaries
C) Bolsheviks
D) Serfs
- 15. What is the title of the book written by Karl Marx?
A) War and Peace
B) Many Festivals of Communism
C) Communist Manifesto
D) Communism 101
A) United States of Soviet Republics
B) University of Soviet States Reunited
C) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
D) Union of Super Soviet Revolutionaries
- 17. After Ivan IV (the Terrible), which dynasty began and ruled the Russian Empire for nearly 300 years?
A) Ming
B) Gorbachev
C) Chang
D) Romanov
- 18. What is the term used for emperor (or king) in Russia?
A) Missionary
B) Czar
C) Coup
D) Serf
- 19. What is the term used to describe a system where one person has total power? This was established by Ivan IV (the Terrible) in Russia.
A) Autocratic
B) Glasnost
C) Socratic
D) Democratic
- 20. Which Soviet leader is known as "George Washington of Russia"?
A) Kruschev
B) Lenin
C) Brezhnev
D) Stalin
- 21. Which of the following does NOT describe Peter I (the Great)?
A) Educated in Europe
B) Part of the Romanov Dynasty
C) Limited the oppression of the serfs
D) Believed in communism
- 22. Who was the last czar of Russia?
A) Nicholas II
B) Peter I
C) Ivan III
D) Catherine II
- 23. Who was never a Russian or Soviet leader?
A) Marx
B) Putin
C) Brezhnev
D) Lenin
- 24. With which country did Brezhnev NOT have to deal a situation in?
A) Afghanistan
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Finland
D) Poland
- 25. Which leader was not a communist?
A) Stalin
B) Gorbachev
C) Yeltsin
D) Kruschev
- 26. Which Soviet leader used murder and Siberian labor camps to keep the people under control?
A) Medvedev
B) Gorbachev
C) Brezhnev
D) Stalin
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