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1
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Which region of the former Soviet Union became known as a “repository for political dissidents and trouble-makers”? (Gulag Archipelago)

a. Ukraine
b. Belarus
c. Latvia
d. Siberia
e. Moldova

A

D

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, what has become of the policy of Russification within former Soviet republics?

a. Russification continued to rise in the 1990s, but has decreased since 2000.
b. Russification has decreased, with fewer Russians settling in these regions.
c. Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave these regions.
d. Russification has increased greatly, with greater numbers of Russians settling in these regions.
e. Russification has remained relatively the same.

A

C

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In the Russian Domain, what non-Christian religion has the greatest number of believers?

a. Judaism
b. Animism
c. Buddhism
d. Islam
e. Hinduism

A

D

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Which body of water in the Russian Domain is the world’s largest reserve of freshwater?

a. Lake Baikal
b. Lake Ladoga
c. the Caspian Sea
d. the Aral Sea
e. Lake Balqash

A

A

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Who were the Cossacks of the Russian Domain?

a. Ukrainian hunters
b. Slavic-speaking, semi-nomadic Christians
c. Swedish warriors
d. Estonian pastoralists
e. descendants of Mongolian horsemen and women

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B

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What is the primary reason for the shrinking of the Aral Sea?

a. There is climatic change in Central Asia.
b. Tectonic rifting in the region is causing the sea’s water to be removed beneath the ground surface.
c. Large-scale irrigation projects implemented by the Soviets in the 1950s have diverted water from the two rivers that feed the sea.
d. Much of the water has been removed directly from the sea surface by the numerous nuclear desalinization plants along the Aral’s shore.
e. all of the above

A

C

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What city is Russia’s largest metropolitan area, as measured by population?

a. Volgograd
b. Novosibirsk
c. Moscow
d. Kiev
e. St. Petersburg

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C

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What was social realism of the Soviet era in the Russian Domain?

a. an art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or struggling against capitalism
b. an acting style in the Soviet domain
c. a writing style that is similar to today’s “reality TV”
d. a musical style that emphasized traditional melodies, combined with classical instrumentation
e. a holistic approach to the arts in the former Soviet Union

A

A

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What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain?

a. 100 million
b. 150 million
c. 200 million
d. 250 million
e. 500 million

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C

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What language group dominates in the Russian Domain?

a. Tibetan
b. Slavic
c. Finno-Ugric
d. Altaic
e. Eskimo-Aleut

A

B

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What is the primary reason why European Russia has a higher population than Asian Russia?

a. European Russia is better suited for agriculture.
b. Asian Russia lost much of its population in World War II.
c. Communist government policies forced millions to move to European Russia from Asian Russia.
d. Devastating diseases killed off much of the population of Asian Russia.
e. European Russia has historically had an extremely low death rate.

A

A

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What makes Russia distinctive?

a. It has the strongest economy on Earth.
b. It has the largest population of any country on Earth.
c. It has the largest quantity of oil reserves of any country on Earth.
d. It has the lowest altitude of any country on Earth.
e. It has the largest land area of any country on Earth.

A

E

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In which region of the Russian Domain would you find reindeer, Siberian tigers, bears, and leopards?

a. Transcaucasia
b. the European West
c. the Russian Far East
d. the Ural Mountains
e. the Caucasus

A

C

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Where do the majority of the people in the Russian Domain live?

a. in the north of the region
b. in the south of the region
c. in the west of the region
d. in the east of the region
e. in the center of the region

A

C

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Which part of the Russian Domain has historically provided the most productive agricultural areas of the region?

a. Latvia
b. Moldova
c. Ukraine
d. Siberia
e. Belarus

A

C

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What is the name for Eurasia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia

A

The Russian Domain

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Republics that gave special recognition to smaller ethnic homelands

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Autonomous Areas

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A portion of a country’s territory that lies outside its contiguous land area

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Exclave

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Idealistic wall separating the soviets from others

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Iron curtain

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1948-1991, soviets and U.S. Competition and military, idealistic

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Cold War

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President Gorbachev had a policy of greater openness called

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Glasnost

22
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Gorbachev’s policy of restructuring the planned centralized economy

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Perestroika

23
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Looser political union of most former republics with no real economic or political power

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CIS, commonwealth of independent states

24
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Return of nuclear weapons from outlying republics to Russian control

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Denuclearization

25
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State controls production targets and outputs

A

Centralized economic planning

26
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Form of Christianity historically linked to Eastern Europe and church leaders in Constantinople.
- later split into Mongols and Tatars

A

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

27
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Slavic speaking Christians who had earlier migrated to the region seeking freedom in the I governed steppes

A

Cossacks

28
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What percent of the Russian population claims a Russian linguistic identity?

A

80%

29
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Those of a northern political branch of Indo-European language family

A

Slavic peoples

30
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Southward moving warriors from Sweden who married people and helped form the Slavic population

A

Varangians

31
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Many Russian residents left due to imposed rigid language and citizenship requirements. This was known as the

A

New International Movement

32
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Coniferous forest zone

A

Russian Taiga

33
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Key railroad leading to the pacific, finished I 1904

A

Trans-Siberian railroad

34
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A collection of political prisons where inmates often disappeared or spent years far removed from family and communities

A

Gulag Archipelago

35
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Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of Soviet Union, changing region’s human geography

A

Russification

36
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Parallels run north of lake Baikal to Amur river

A

Baikal-Amur Mainline railroad

37
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Limit output and ability of region to support a productive agricultural economy

A

Podzol soils

38
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Large producer of what three things?

A

1) Steel
2) weaponry
3) petroleum products

39
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What climate does Russia have?

A

Continental climate

40
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Three forms of imperialism

A

1) fur trade
2) gold rush
3) transcontinental railroad

41
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A faction of Russian communists representing the interests of the industrial workers

A

Bolsheviks

42
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Land valuable for wheat, corn, and sugar beet cultivation and for commercial meat production

A

Chernozem soils

43
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Large soviet era housing projects of the 1970’s and 1980’s

-mass blocks of standardized apartment buildings

A

Mikrorayons

44
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A cold climate condition of unstable, seasonally frozen ground that limits the growth of vegetation and causes problems for railroad construction

A

Permafrost

45
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Authoritarian leaders who dominated politics during the pre-1917 Russian empire

A

Stars

46
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A style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers heroically challenging nature of struggling against capitalism

A

Socialist realism

47
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What makes Russia distinctive?

A

Northern latitude position / high-latitude continental climate

48
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Where has the Russian Domain dumped its nuclear wastes?

A

Island of Novaya Zemlya

49
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9) Which of the following was not a former Soviet Republic? (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan)

A

Afghanistan

50
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The Caucasus Mountains are located between which two bodies of water?

A

Caspian Sea and Black Sea

51
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In which region of the Russian Domain is permafrost a problem?

A

Siberia

52
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47) One of Putin’s early political moves was to crack down on dissidents in the Russian republic of____________

A

Chechnya

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