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WorksheetsRUSSIA TEST REVIEW
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 15mins
WHAT TWO INDUSTRIES DID THE SOVIET UNION SPEND MOST OF ITS MONEY AND RESOURCES ON?
MILITARY AND FOOD
MILITARY AND SPACE PROGRAM
FOOD AND SPACE PROGRAM
FOOD AND CONSUMER GOODS
The largest country in the world, which covers all of northern Asia and almost half of Europe
Russia
Ukraine
Poland
Switzerland
ALTHOUGH RUSSIA IS NO LONGER COMMUNIST, WHAT RUSSIAN PRESIDENT FUNCTIONS LIKE A CZAR OR DICTATOR?
YELTSIN
PUTIN
ORBAN
MEDVEDEV
THE LAUNCHING OF THE FIRST SATELLITE INTO SPACE WAS THE FIRST REAL EVENT OF THE COLD WAR. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE ROCKET?
LAIKA
GULAG
GAGARIN
SPUTNIK
DURING THE TIME OF THE SOVIET UNION, WHAT WAS THE ONLY POLITICAL PARTY ALLOWED DURING ELECTIONS
SOCIALIST
CONSERVATIVE
COMMUNIST
DEMOCRATIC
Chernobyl is a town located in present day Ukraine, formerly USSR. On Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at exactly 1:23 am, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. What caused the reactor to explode?
sabotage by an enemy of the USSR
an experiment gone wrong
to this day, the reason is unknown
earthquakes struck the plant
HOW DID THE SOVIET UNION CONTROL THE IDEAS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE DURING THE COLD WAR?
EDUCATION
CENSORSHIP AND PROPAGANDA
DEBATES
RELIGION
IN A FREE MARKET OR CAPITALIST ECONOMY, WHO DETERMINES THE PRICES FOR GOODS AND SERVICES?
POLITICAL PARTIES
LABOR UNIONS
THE GOVERNMENT
INDIVIDUALS OR CONSUMERS
WHAT REGION OF RUSSIA HAS SEEN WARS IN CHECHNYA, GEORGIA, AZERBAIJAN, OSSETIA AND DAGESTAN?
WESTERN RUSSIA
CENTRAL ASIA
THE CAUCUSES
SIBERIA
WHAT SEA IS DRYING UP BECAUSE OF DAMNING THE AMU AND SYR DARYA RIVERS TO DIVERT WATER TO COTTON PRODUCTION DURING THE SOVIET ERA?
ARAL
CASPIAN
WHITE
BAIKAL
12013 31 An economic change introduced in the Soviet
Union under Joseph Stalin would include
establishing free-market reforms
boycotting Baltic Sea trade routes
focusing on the production of consumer
goods
collectivizing agriculture
Which political leader introduced programs that moved the USSR away from totalitarianism, and increased economic freedom and political rights?
Mikhail Gorbechev
Joseph Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Which of the following is the correct form of governments Russia has had from then to now?
Communism to Monarchy to Democracy
Monarchy to Communism to Democracy
Democracy to Monarchy to Communism
Communism to Socialism to Monarchy
Describe at least two ways in which the human characteristics of Russia today are much different than it was 100 years ago. Explain the most important reason for each of the two differences you describe.
Analyze the Human and Physical causes and effects of war? Use the current war between Russia and Ukraine as your example.
