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Unit 5- Russia Review
Unit 5- Russia Review
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Ms. Nesbit's World Geography Unit 5 Russia Review
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1
On what was the Soviet economy based?
Light Industry
Services
Heavy Industry
Agriculture
2
What were the organized persecution and massacres of Jewish people under the czars?
Diaspora
Ghettos
Holocaust
Pogroms
3
Today Russia's literacy rate is:
Under 50%
Lower than any other time in its history
About 80%
Nearly 100%
4
Which czar wanted to modernize Russia? (Made men shave their beards and spoke French)
Catherine the Great
Nicholas II
Peter the Great
Ivan the Terrible
5
Where is the Crimean Peninsula?
Kazakhstan
Belarus
Estonia
Ukraine
6
What is the world's largest country?
Russia
Kazakhstan
Belarus
Ukraine
7
What is Russia's most valuable export?
Electronics
Uranium
Oil and Natural Gas
Coal
8
Ethnic Russians are part of what ethnic group?
Slavs
Caucasians
Turks
Poles
9
Who was the first crowned czar?
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Joseph Stalin
Catherine the Great
10
What is the second largest religion in Russia today?
Islam
Buddhism
Judaism
Orthodox Christianity
11
What did Gorbachev institute to help the Soviet economy?
Kremlin
Solidarity
Chernozem
Glasnost and Peristroika
12
What is the largest religion in Russia today?
Judaism
Orthodox Christianity
Buddhism
Islam
13
What was the economic system of the Soviet Union?
Mixed Economy
Command Economy
Market Economy
Traditional Economy
14
Which body of water contains one fifth of the world's freshwater?
Black Sea
Volga River
Aral Sea
Lake Baikal
15
What is Russia's longest river?
Volga
Danube
Tigris
Yellow
16
Who was the last Russian czar?
Nicholas II
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
Ivan the Terrible
17
Which ruler gained a long sought warm water port on the Black Sea?
Ivan the Terrible
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
Nicholas II
18
Who is the current President of Russia?
Nicholas Khruschev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
19
Most Russians speak _____ as their first language.
Polish
Cyrillic
Russian
English
20
The ideas of _____ are the basis for communism.
Boris Yeltsin
Karl Marx
Catherine the Great
Joseph Stalin
21
What has damaged Russian farmland?
Fertilizers and Pesticides
Organic Farming
Tourism
Severe Weather
22
What is Russia's currency?
Rupee
Euro
Krone
Ruble
23
Who was the first democratically elected President of Russia?
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Lenin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
24
What is the world's longest continuous railway line?
St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
East Siberian Railway
25
What takes up most of Russia yet is home to the least number of people?
Siberian Plain
North European Plain
the Ural Mountains
Kamchatka Peninsula
26
Ethnic _____ make up 80% of Russia's population.
Caucasians
Serbs
Russians
Muslims
27
Who was the first communist ruler of the Soviet Union?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khruschev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
28
Where was the worst nuclear accident in world history?
St. Petersburg
Chernobyl
Moscow
Lake Baikal
29
What is the capital of Russia?
Vladivostok
Sochi
St. Petersburg
Moscow
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Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khruschev
