Quiz on the Russian Revolution - Grade 9

Question 1

First Russian Revolution

Answer 1

Decembirist Russian Revolution

Question 2

Duma

Answer 2

a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.
1906-1917 and since 1993

Question 3

Bloody Sunday

Answer 3

Over one hundred thousand demonstrators marched peacefully to the Winter Palace to present the Czar with a list of complaints concerning working conditions in the factories. When the Czar failed to appear, tension mounted. In a moment of panic, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.
inspired the start of the 1905 russian revolution
killing up to 200 people

Question 4

Lenin

Answer 4

Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.
Leninist revolutionary leadership is based upon The Communist Manifesto (1848).
leader of bolsheviks in november 1917

Question 5

Tsarism

Answer 5

Tsarist autocracy, also called Tsarism, was an autocracy, a form of absolute monarchy localised with the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire.
Tsar Nicholas I’s ‘Three Pillars,’ orthodoxy, nationality and autocracy.

Question 6

How did World War I lead to the Russian Revolution

Answer 6

The Russian Revolution was caused by the consequences of World War I: economic crises, and demotivated soldiers. In both cases, governments – the Romanov Dynasty and the Provisional Government that first seized power from the Tsar – were unable to resolve these problems.

Question 7

one cause of the Russian Revolution

Answer 7

the Industrial Revolution in Russia left workers facing unsafe working conditions, low wages, and few worker’s rights. The once well-off Russian working class was suddenly confronted with overcrowded housing often with deplorable sanitary conditions, and long work hours. Even on the eve of World War I, workers were putting in 10 to 12-hour workdays six days a week. The constant risk of injury and death from unsafe and unsanitary working conditions along with harsh physical discipline and inadequate wages added to the proletariat’s growing discontent.

Question 8

second cause of the Russian Revolution

Answer 8

Believing his power had been granted by Divine Right, Nicholas assumed that the people would show him unquestioning loyalty. This belief made him unwilling to allow social and political reforms that could have relieved the suffering of the Russian people resulting from his incompetent management of the war effort.
In 1907, however, Nicholas disbanded the first two Dumas when they failed to endorse his autocratic policies.

Question 9

Rasputin

Answer 9

a self-proclaimed holy man

Question 10

What perspective the cartoonist presenting about Rasputin and his impact on the Russian Royal Family

Answer 10

• Rasputin was rumored to have had an affair with Alexandra – although there is no historical evidence to support this. Czar Nicholas took control of his military forces in 1915 during World War I and left the country’s affairs to Alexandra.
• Alexandra relied on Rasputin for spiritual guidance and advice on political matters, which gave him significant power and influence over the royal family.

Question 11

Why do people draw cartoons

Answer 11

Propaganda - information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

create the most extreme form of a statement

Question 13

Symbolism

Answer 13

create a certain mood or emotion in a work of literature.

Question 14

Allusions

Answer 14

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.