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The Khanate of the Golden Horde was founded by |
| | A) | Russians. |
| | B) | Chinese. |
| | C) | Mongols. |
| | D) | Byzantines. |
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Which country claims to have been the first Christian country in the world? |
| | A) | Armenia |
| | B) | Israel |
| | C) | Italy |
| | D) | Russia |
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In the government that the Bolsheviks put in place in the Soviet Union, which group was supposed to have the most authority? |
| | A) | clergy |
| | B) | monarchy |
| | C) | middle classes |
| | D) | Soviet workers and soldiers |
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4 | |
The climate of most of Russia is |
| | A) | midlatitude continental interior. |
| | B) | continental warm-summer. |
| | C) | Mediterranean. |
| | D) | marine west coast. |
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The largest lake in the world in terms of both volume and area is the |
| | A) | Black Sea. |
| | B) | Caspian Sea. |
| | C) | Aral Sea. |
| | D) | Lake Baikal. |
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The economic sector that received top priority from the Soviet government was |
| | A) | automobiles. |
| | B) | housing. |
| | C) | food. |
| | D) | the military. |
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Two Russian terms that entered the English language during Mikhail Gorbachev's restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s were |
| | A) | Bolshevik and Menshevik. |
| | B) | perestroika and zaibatsu. |
| | C) | Novgorod and glasnost. |
| | D) | perestroika and glasnost. |
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The lack of connectedness between Russia and its neighbors with the rest of the world is a result of |
| | A) | low technology. |
| | B) | the inability of Russians to speak English. |
| | C) | the Communist legacy. |
| | D) | cultural barriers. |
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The greatest concentration of people in Siberia is |
| | A) | in the northern forests. |
| | B) | in the tundra. |
| | C) | in the deserts. |
| | D) | along the Trans-Siberian Railway. |
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The Slavic country with the lowest rate of urbanization is |
| | A) | Moldova. |
| | B) | Ukraine. |
| | C) | Belarus. |
| | D) | Russia. |
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"Secret cities" were built to house |
| | A) | nuclear establishments. |
| | B) | biologic warfare research. |
| | C) | weapon design. |
| | D) | all the above |
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Russia's main trading partner(s) is (are) |
| | A) | other CIS countries. |
| | B) | China. |
| | C) | Western Europe. |
| | D) | the United States |
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13 | |
One of the major trends in urban landscapes to emerge since the breakup of the Soviet Union is |
| | A) | upgrading of light rail systems. |
| | B) | out-of-town shopping areas. |
| | C) | building of suburbs. |
| | D) | rapid increase in population leading to new development. |
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14 | |
The world's largest aluminum plants are located at |
| | A) | Moscow and St. Petersburg. |
| | B) | Vladivostok and Irkutsk. |
| | C) | Odessa. |
| | D) | Krasnoyarsk, Bratsk, and Sayansk. |
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15 | |
In 1895 and again in 1915, the Ottoman Turks carried out a massacre against the |
| | A) | Georgians. |
| | B) | Armenians. |
| | C) | Azerbaijanis. |
| | D) | Russians. |
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16 | |
Russia grew out of a mingling of Eastern Slavs, Varangians, Balts, and Finno-Ugric peoples. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Collectivization was supposed to make agricultural workers more like industrial workers. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The most used rivers of Russia are those in eastern Siberia. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The northern Russian taiga is the world's largest forest area. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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20 | |
By the 1950s, the Soviet Union's level of economic development was the same as that in the West. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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21 | |
Communism originated in Russia. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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22 | |
Because of economic hardships, Russia can no longer be considered a world power. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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23 | |
Although Soviet women were accepted into many professions before American women, those professions had relatively low status in the Soviet Union. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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24 | |
Among the most productive features of Russian agriculture continues to be families' private garden plots. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In 1991, the Azerbaijani government adopted a new alphabet based on the Cyrillic alphabet. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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