Ultimate Quiz Revolution: Russia And China
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China and Russia are some of the most interesting countries in the world when it comes to history, for a number of reasons including their intriguing rule and government. What can you tell us about some of this history? Take the following quiz and find out how much you know.
- 1.Who were the Bolsheviks?
- A.
Soldiers in the White Army
- B.
Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
- C.
Members of the Duma, Russia's parliament
- D.
Followers of Rasputin
- 2.Who did China's peasants align themselves with in the 1920s?
- A.
Communists
- B.
Warlords
- C.
Qing Dynasty
- D.
Nationalists
- 3.What were soviets under Russia's provisional government?
- A.
Police groups
- B.
Plans for redistributing land
- C.
Technology inventions
- D.
Local councils that were kind of like unions and political parties rolled into one.
- 4.What is a totalitarian state?
- A.
A state in which the people have a direct say in their government
- B.
A state in which the people elect representatives to the legislature
- C.
A state in which the government controls every aspect of public and private life
- D.
A state in which the working class is glorified and has the greatest voice in government
- 5.What was the purpose of the Soviet state's Five-Year Plans?
- A.
Economic development
- B.
Foreign policy
- C.
Political reform
- D.
Social restructuring
- 6.What did Sun Yat-sen’s Revolutionary Alliance accomplish?
- A.
Overthrowing the last emperor and creating the first government after Empire
- B.
Defeating the Kuomintang
- C.
Spreading Communism in China
- D.
Controlling the rampaging warlords
- 7.Which group was known for taking a 6,000-mile journey known as the "Long March?"
- A.
Chinese Communists, fleeing the Nationalists
- B.
Chinese Nationalists, fleeing the Communists
- C.
Chinese peasants, fleeing the Japanese invaders
- D.
The Russian White Army, fleeing the Bolsheviks
- 8.Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March?
- A.
Sun Yat Sen
- B.
Mohandis K. Gandhi
- C.
Mustafa Kemal
- D.
Mao Zedong
- 9.How did czars Alexander III and Nicholas II deal with calls for reform in the 19th century?
- A.
They immediately moved to enact reforms.
- B.
They made a few reforms but not all.
- C.
They resisted all efforts for reform. They were oppressive Czars.
- D.
They appointed ministers to study reforms.
- 10.How did the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II help pave the way for revolution?
- A.
They both upheld an autocratic government without reform.
- B.
They supported rapid industrialization at the expense of the treasury.
- C.
They instituted pogroms to weed out revolutionary thinkers.
- D.
They saw to it that the poor were imprisoned for debts.
- 11.Why did Chinese peasants align themselves with the Communists rather than the Nationalists?
- A.
The Communists divided land among the farmers, while the Nationalists ignored their problems.
- B.
The Nationalists relocated thousands of peasants in the Long March.
- C.
The Nationalists were forcing China to industrialize.
- D.
The Communists moved peasants to collective farms, where they prospered.
- 12.What event in 1937 made the Nationalists and Communists in China stop fighting each other?
- A.
The Nationalists succeeded in wiping out the Communists.
- B.
Chinese Communists began a 6,000 mile journey.
- C.
The Japanese invaded China.
- D.
Chinese peasants aligned themselves with the Communists.
- 13.Under Joseph Stalin's command economy system, all economic decisions were made by
- A.
Government officials.
- B.
Workers.
- C.
Members of the socialist realism movement.
- D.
The free market.
- 14.The Soviet government created these to replace privately owned farms in rural areas.
- A.
Collective farms
- B.
The Five-Year Plans
- C.
Religious persecution
- D.
Censorship and propaganda
- 15.Between 1934 and 1939, the Great Purge was a campaign to eliminate
- A.
Traditional religious beliefs.
- B.
Opposition to Stalin's power.
- C.
Opposition to the war.
- D.
Shortages of housing, food, and goods.
- 16.Which of the following is a weapon of totalitarianism?
- A.
Free elections
- B.
Freedom of the press
- C.
Being nice to all ethnic groups
- D.
Police terror
- 17.This was Russia's first parliament.
- A.
Duma
- B.
Congress
- C.
Senate
- D.
Reichstag
- 18.He was the major leader of the Bolsheviks.
- A.
Mao
- B.
Sun Yat-Sen
- C.
Czar Nicholas II
- D.
Lenin
- 19.This man's influence on Czarina Alexandra led a group of Russian nobles to murder him.
- A.
Czar Nicholas II
- B.
Rasputin
- C.
Hitler
- D.
Mussolini
- 20.What was one slogan of the March Revolution?
- A.
Death to communists
- B.
Pride in Mother Russia
- C.
Peace and bread
- D.
We need work
- 21.What was one of Lenin’s Bolshevik slogans?
- A.
Stop the capitalist revolution
- B.
Peace, land, bread
- C.
We will we will rock you
- D.
Bolsheviks rule the world
- 22.Which group was also known as the Kuomintang?
- A.
Imperialists
- B.
Nationalists
- C.
Japanese
- D.
Bolsheviks
- 23.Who was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party?
- A.
Mao Zedong
- B.
Chiang Kai-Shek
- C.
Stalin
- D.
Hitler
- 24.Who became the president of the Nationalist Republic of China in 1928?
- A.
Stalin
- B.
Hitler
- C.
Chiang Kai-shek
- D.
Lenin
- 25.Which group attracted the support of China's peasants in the 1920s?
- A.
Communists
- B.
Imperialists
- C.
Bolsheviks
- D.
Zionists
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