The First World War - Quiz

Question 1

How did students react to the 1905 Rev?

Answer 1

Hung red flags, protest marches; went on strike (classes cancelled 1905).

Question 1

Two things did peasants did during the 1905 revolution as a reaction.

Answer 1

Withhold paying tax; attack landowners; withhold labour.

Question 2

How did soldiers and sailors react?

Answer 2

Some Mutinied

Question 3

What were the political parties demanding from the tsar?

Answer 3

Voting rights for a Duma; a constitution; freedom to speak.

Question 4

What is the name of the workers’ council that formed on 13th Oct 1905?

Answer 4

St Petersburg Soviet.

Question 5

What date did the hold a national strike that forced the tsar to act?

Answer 5

14th Oct 1905.

Question 6

What was the response of the St Petersburg Soviet to the October Manifesto?

Answer 6

‘A fraud on the people, a trick of the Tsar.’

Question 7

How many days before the opening of the First Duma did the tsar release his Fundamental Laws?

Answer 7

Four (23rd April 1906).

Question 8

How many statements criticising the actions of the government did the First Duma make in the few weeks they existed?

Answer 8

391

Question 9

The political parties and the workers became increasingly what during the time of the Dumas?

Answer 9

Radical (demanding change).