The World and Its People: Eastern Hemisphere

Chapter 8: Russia's Landscape and History

Russia's Landscape and History

1.
Which landform marks the boundary between Europe and Asia?
A)Caucasus Mountains
B)Volga River
C)Caspian Sea
D)Ural Mountains

2.
What percentage of Russia's people live on the North European Plain?
A)25 percent
B)50 percent
C)75 percent
D)90 percent

3.
The Asian part of Russia is known as _____
A)Siberia.
B)Kamchatka.
C)the tundra.
D)Mongolia.

4.
Forty percent of Russia's land is _____
A)permafrost.
B)desert.
C)steppe.
D)swampy.

5.
Huge, subarctic evergreen forests are known as _____
A)tundra.
B)steppe.
C)taiga.
D)permafrost.

6.
In the late 1400s, Ivan III made Muscovy stronger when he drove out the _____
A)Slavs.
B)Communists.
C)Mongols.
D)Kievans.

7.
Which ruler tried to make Russia more like Europe?
A)Ivan IV
B)Ivan the Terrible
C)Michael Romanov
D)Peter the Great

8.
Who led the Russian Revolution in 1917?
A)Vladimir Lenin
B)Joseph Stalin
C)Mikhail Gorbachev
D)Karl Marx

9.
The Soviet leader who was in power during World War II was _____
A)Nicholas II.
B)Boris Yeltsin.
C)Joseph Stalin.
D)Mikhail Gorbachev.

10.
Russia's economy has moved from communism to a _____
A)command system.
B)glasnost system.
C)five-year plan.
D)free enterprise system.
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