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6th Grade Contemporary World Cultures Russia Review
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Two of Russia's most important northwestern ports are St. Petersburg & ____
Leningrad
Kamchatka
Kaliningrad
Houston
2
Longest river in Europe
Seine
Volga
Rhine
Lena
3
Who was the last czar of Russia? He and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1917
Ivan the Terrible
Nicolas Romanov II
Micchail Baryshnikov
Boris Yeltsin
4
What German city was divided with a wall between East & West from 1969-1989?
Stuttgart
Berlin
Bonn
St. Petersburg
5
Stalin forced Communism on them:
Siberia
Western Europe
Russia's Neighboring countries
the Koreas
6
List the dividing line between Europe & Asia
Answer 1
Answers 1 & 2
Ural Mtns., Ural R., Caucasus Mtns.,
Black Sea, Bosporous, Sea of Marmara, Dandanelles
7
Russian leader that ended Mongol rule in Russia
Catherine the Great
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Great
Peter the Great
8
Russia's land area ranks ____ in the world?
5th
17th
3rd
1st
9
Compared to an American President, Russian President Putin has
less hair
more powers
less Tweets
all of the above
10
Czar who westernized and expanded Russia
Peter Piper
Peter Rabbit
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
Peter the Great
11
Leader of the Bolsheviks, founder of Russian communism
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Lenin
12
Transportation linking Vladivostok with Moscow
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Orient Express
Transportation
Transistor Radio
13
Early rulers of Russia were called
czars
emperors
kind-of-a-big-deal
kings
14
Cold, treeless area of northern Siberia
Winter Wonderland
Reindeer Rescue
Tons of "Fundra"
Tundra
15
What is the name of Russia's capital city?
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Washington D.C.
Stalingrad
16
Famous Russian composer of 1
812 Overture
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Handel
17
When is Vladimir Putin's current term as President over?
2020
2024
2018
never!
18
Ethnic group seeking independence from Russia
Chickens
Dagwoods
Chechens
Chinchillas
19
Russia's only Baltic port that is ice-free year round
Crimea
Murmansk
Kaliningrad
Leningrad
20
Area of Ukraine seized by Putin against the will of the people
Yakutsk
Balkan Peninsula
Crimean Peninsula
Russian Republics
21
Relating to a city
Agrarian
Urban
Citified
Rural
22
Economic system in which government owns all factories and makes all decisions.
Fidelity
Capitalism
Free Market
Communism
23
Soviet forced labor/prison camps were called
Bolshevik
Privet
Gulags
Ladoga
24
Environmental issues left by the USSR's disregard for the environment:
water pollution from fertilizer run-off, industrial wastes
Air pollution from factories
all of them
buried chemical weapons poison the soil
25
Ground that is frozen most or all of the year
Permafrost
Taiga
the Land of Elsa from Frozen
Permanent
26
Exact name of the former Soviet Union
United Soviet States & Republics
United States of Russia
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSA
27
After 1991 the Russians were able to start & run their own businesses: a ____ ____ economy.
Free Enterprise/Free Market
wealthy
Command
Socialist
28
What form of Christianity spread to Russia & blended with Russian culture?
Islam
Russian Orthodox
Roman Catholic
Protestant
29
Brutal dictator who wanted to transform Russia into an industrial giant
Marx
Putin
Lenin
Stalin
30
Who is the current president of Russia?
Vladimir Romanov
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Dmitry Medvedev
31
Czar who freed the serfs in 1861:
Catherine the Great
Nicholas II
Peter the Great
Alexander II
32
Number of Time Zones in Russia today:
24
what are time zones?
nine
eleven
33
In 1985 Gorbachev relaxed control over the economy through ___(openness) and ___(restructuring)
open-door policy
cyrillic
glasnost/perestroika
perestroika/glasnost
34
Kaliningrad is an (
exclave or enclave
) of Russia, the ice-free port on the Baltic:
exit off Central Expressway
enclave
exclave
exclave and enclave
35
Peasants legally bound to work and live on land owned by his master
Indentured servants
slaves
serfs
Smurfs
36
Ancient form of Christianity practiced in Eastern Europe & Russia
Buddhism
Russian Catholicism
Roman Catholicism
Orthodox Christianity
37
Compared to the Asian part, Russia's European part is ____.
wilder
wider
moldier
milder
38
The Soviet Union collapsed in this year:
1919
2019
1991
1985
39
Deep lake in eastern Russia holding 20% of the world's fresh unfrozen water:
Lake Ontario
Lake Ladoga
Lake Como
Lake Baikal
40
Following WWII why did Eastern European countries became part of the Soviet Union?
Eastern European countries didn't want to have rights
Eastern European countries were forced to adopt communism.
Eastern Europeans all spoke Russian
Eastern European countries were invited to join the U.S.S.R.
41
One of Russia's oldest cities, founded by Peter the Great in the 1700s.
Kaliningrad
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Petra
42
Most Russian cities are located in which region of the country?
South
West
East
North
43
1940s - 1960s competition for world influence between Soviet Union & U.S.:
Cold War
Gulf War
WWII
War of the Roses
44
Huge evergreen forest
Baikal
Tiger
Taiga
Tundra
45
Russian leader responsible for ending communism & bringing openness & restructuring to Russia?
Vladimir Lenin
Mrs. Brown
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
46
Horsemen who swept through Kiev, removing wealth and power in the 1200s:
Mongols
Mongrels
Rodeo cowboys
Missionaries
47
How long does it take to cross Russia by train?
11 days
8 days
9 time zones
8 hours
48
world's largest lake (NOT freshwater)
Adriatic Sea
Sea of Marmara
Caspian Sea
Black Sea
49
term meaning to change the economy to rely more on manufacturing, less on farming:
sanitize
demilitarize
industrialize
modernize
50
During the Russian Revolution Lenin took over, putting this governmental system in place:
Communism
Bolshevik
Democracy
rule by czar
51
Russia's population is this fraction of the population of the U.S.
less than 1/8
less than 1/4th
2 times as large
less than 1/2
52
Two mountain ranges rise in western Russia: the Urals & the _______
Dardanelles
Caucasus
Atlas
Himalaya
53
Which nation shown on the map is in both Europe & Asia?
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
Spain
54
Frozen terrain in northern & eastern Russia, rich in Natural resources
Black Forest
frozen wasteland
Siberia
Taiga
55
Leader of French army that invaded Russia in 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte
Prince, Paris, & Blanket
Napoleon Bono
Jean Val Jean
56
Largest ethnic group in Russia
Mongolian
Slaves
Russian
Slavs
