Deck 9: The Russian Domain

Question 1

What is the source of the nuclear threat in the Russian Domain?

A) The Soviet Union had aggressive nuclear weapons and energy programs.
B) Nuclear fallout tests were conducted in the atmosphere.
C) There are unregulated nuclear waste dumps.
D) The USSR had nuclear weapons and power plants; nuclear fallout tests were conducted in the atmosphere; and nuclear waste dumps were unregulated.
E) The USSR had nuclear weapons and power plants; and nuclear waste dumps were unregulated.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What effects might Russia see from climate change?

A) More of the land in its northern regions may become suitable for agriculture and boreal forests may expand into what are now tundra regions
B) Navigation may extend throughout the year in Russia's northern waterways, while thawing of Siberian permafrost may cause mud flows and erosion
C) Navigation may extend throughout the year in Russia's northern waterways.
D) Thawing of Siberian permafrost may cause mud flows and erosion.
E) All of the choices are correct.

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Why do the authors of your text use the word "domain" when talking about "the Russian Domain"?

A) "Russian Domain" is an official name, reflecting the continuing federal relationship between the countries in the region.
B) The term suggests persisting Russian influence within the region.
C) The term is the name of the free trade zone now evolving in the region.
D) Domain refers to a kingdom.
E) Domain refers to a federal subdivision.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What threatened species is at the center of a complex environmental web in the Russian Domain?

A) Stellar's sea eagles
B) Seals
C) Brown bears
D) Pacific salmon
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 5

What is the source of the threat to Pacific salmon in the Russian Domain?

A) South Korean and Canadian oil companies have drilling rights in the region where the salmon live
B) Illegal poaching of the salmon and their eggs
C) A Russian oil companies have drilling rights in the region where the salmon live
D) South Korean, Canadian, and Russian oil companies have drilling rights in the region where the salmon live, and illegal poaching of the salmon and their eggs
E) South Korean, Canadian, and Russian oil companies have drilling rights in the region where the salmon live

Question 6

What makes Russia distinctive?

A) It has the largest land area of any country on Earth.
B) It has the largest quantity of oil reserves of any country on Earth.
C) It has the largest population of any country on Earth.
D) It has the highest mountain range of any country on Earth.
E) It has the strongest economy on Earth.

Question 7

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

A) the Ural Mountains
B) the Russian Far East
C) the European West
D) the Caucasus
E) Transcaucasia

Question 8

Where is the eastern edge of Europe and the western edge of the Russian Domain approximately located?

A) the Ural Mountains
B) the eastern border of Ukraine
C) the center of Siberia
D) a line running from the Baltic to the Adriatic
E) along the trans-Siberian railroad

Question 9

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

A) the Caspian Sea
B) Lake Balqash
C) the Aral Sea
D) Lake Ladoga
E) Lake Baikal

Question 10

What kind of pollution has damaged Russia's Lake Baikal?

A) pollution from pulp and paper factories
B) clearcutting of the forest surrounding the lake
C) nuclear waste dumped in the lake
D) acid rain
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 11

What is the dominant climate type in the Russian Domain?

A) Mediterranean
B) Polar
C) Mild Midlatitude
D) Continental Midlatitude
E) Desert

Question 12

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

A) Ukraine
B) Belarus
C) Latvia
D) Moldova
E) Siberia

Question 13

Where has the Russian Domain dumped its nuclear wastes?

A) at an unregulated dump outside the city of Chernobyl
B) in Siberia
C) in the Arctic Sea
D) off the northern island of Novaya Zemlya, in the Barents Sea
E) in the Sea of Okhotsk

Question 14

What soil type supports the commercial cultivation of corn, wheat, sugar beets, and livestock in the Russian Domain?

A) gelisol
B) oxisol
C) entisol
D) podzol
E) chernozem

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that thrives in the podzol soil region of the Russian Domain?

A) sugar beets
B) grain
C) potatoes
D) swine and meat
E) dairying

Question 16

Which of the following countries is NOT considered to be within the Russian Domain?

A) Armenia
B) Azerbaijan
C) Belarus
D) Georgia
E) Ukraine

Question 17

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

A) the Aral Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk
B) the Sea of Japan and the Barents Sea
C) the Black and Caspian Seas
D) the Sea of Okhotsk and the Caspian Sea
E) the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Japan

Question 18

What body of water lies to the north of the Russian Domain?

A) the Black Sea
B) the Barents Sea
C) the Sea of Okhotsk
D) the Caspian Sea
E) the Sea of Japan

Question 19

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

A) Siberia
B) Caucasus Mountains
C) Ukraine
D) Southern Russia
E) European Russia

Question 20

What is the one element that helps us to understand geographies of climate, vegetation, and agriculture in the Russian Domain?

A) the northern latitudinal position of the Russian Domain
B) the legacy of the Soviet era
C) globalization and its influence on the Russian Domain
D) the Cold War
E) climate change

Question 21

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

A) Russification has decreased, with fewer Russians settling in these regions.
B) Russification has increased greatly, with greater numbers of Russians settling in these regions.
C) Russification has remained relatively the same.
D) Russification has been reversed, where greater numbers of Russians are encouraged to leave these regions.
E) Russification continued to rise in the 1990s, but has decreased since 2000.

Question 22

The Russian Empire had its origins as a small principality in the vicinity of which Russian city?

A) Chernobyl
B) Kiev
C) St. Petersburg
D) Volgograd
E) Moscow

Question 23

Which of the following is a characteristic of the demography of Russia today?

A) increased fertility rates
B) increased family size
C) high rates of immigration into the country
D) lower infant mortality rates
E) higher death rates than most developed countries

Question 24

In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union's Gulag Achipelago located?

A) Siberia
B) Ukraine
C) Belarus
D) Georgia
E) Armenia

Question 25

Which country of the Russian Domain has the largest population in the region?

A) Armenia
B) Belarus
C) Georgia
D) Ukraine
E) Russia

Question 26

By 2030, the Russian population could decrease by ________ million people.

A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 25
E) 30

Question 27

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, what group of people would be likely to emigrate from the Russian Domain?

A) young, well-educated people
B) Russian-born Finns
C) Jews
D) young women available as "mail order brides"
E) All of the above would be likely to emigrate.

Question 28

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

A) in Belarus
B) along the Trans-Siberian Railroad
C) on the east coast
D) in cities
E) This is a trick question; the population is evenly distributed across the region.

Question 29

What is the dominant climate type in the Russian Domain?

A) dry
B) mild midlatitude
C) polar
D) continental
E) Mediterranean

Question 30

Which region of the Russian Domain is semi-arid?

A) the Kamchatka Peninsula
B) Southern Russia
C) Ukraine
D) Siberia
E) European Russia

Question 31

When was the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM)Railroad completed in the Russian Domain?

A) 1904
B) 1934
C) 1954
D) 1964
E) 1984

Question 32

What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of the USSR?

A) declining population followed by growth in 2009
B) rapid population growth
C) slow population growth
D) steady population levels
E) rapid population decline, followed by steady growth beginning in 2000

Question 33

Which region of the former Soviet Union became known as a "repository for political dissidents and trouble-makers"?

A) Belarus
B) Latvia
C) Moldova
D) Ukraine
E) Siberia

Question 34

What are the primary characteristics of a high-latitude continental climate, as illustrated by the Russian Domain?

A) slight variation in seasonal temperature, medium growing season
B) uniformly cold temperatures, extremely short growing season
C) seasonal temperature extremes and short growing season
D) uniformly warm temperature, and long growing season
E) unpredictable temperatures and growing season that is too short for farming

Question 35

Why is the city of Chernobyl well-known?

A) It is the capital of Russia.
B) It is the northernmost city in the world.
C) It is the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear accident.
D) It is Russia's major industrial city.
E) It lies at the heart of Russia's oil industry.

Question 36

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

A) Asian Russia lost much of its population in World War II.
B) European Russia is better suited for agriculture.
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.

Question 37

The Trans-Siberian Railroad

A) was completed after the death of Stalin.
B) travels through the far north of Siberia.
C) intentionally bypasses cities.
D) ends at Vladivostok.
E) was extensively damaged by an earthquake in 2003.

Question 38

The highest population densities in the Russian Domain are found in which part of the region?

A) the southeastern part of the region
B) the eastern-most part of the region
C) Siberia
D) the western-most part of the region
E) the coastal areas around the Sea of Okhotsk

Question 39

What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain?

A) 100 million
B) 150 million
C) 200 million
D) 250 million
E) 500 million

Question 40

Which of the following cities of the Russian Domain has seasonal temperature variation?

A) Tbilisi, Georgia
B) Irkutsk, Russia
C) Simferopol, Ukraine
D) Kiev, Ukraine
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 41

Who were the original founders of Russia?

A) northward moving hunters from Ukraine
B) eastward moving pastoralists from Estonia
C) westward moving Mongolians on horseback
D) Chinese nomadic farmers
E) southward moving warriors from Sweden

Question 42

Which of the following are present in Russian urban areas?

A) numerous single-family dwellings
B) short commute times to work
C) urban sprawl that slowly merges with surrounding rural land
D) low rents
E) laissez-faire development

Question 43

What was the capital of Russia until 1917?

A) Moscow
B) Nizhniy Novgorod
C) St. Petersburg
D) Kazan
E) Kiev

Question 44

Which city dominates the European Core of the Russian Domain?

A) Moscow
B) Kiev
C) Vladivostok
D) Norilsk
E) St. Petersburg

Question 45

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

A) Kiev
B) Moscow
C) St. Petersburg
D) Volgograd
E) Novosibirsk

Question 46

What was the distinctive skill for which Cossacks were well-known?

A) fencing
B) art
C) music
D) horsemanship
E) business

Question 47

The architecture of St. Petersburg, Russia, is similar to that of which other part of the world?

A) Japan
B) Western Europe
C) China
D) United States
E) India

Question 48

In which Union Republic was Russification most intense?

A) Kazakhstan
B) Belarus
C) Ukraine
D) Georgia
E) Afghanistan

Question 49

What language group dominates in the Russian Domain?

A) Slavic
B) Altaic
C) Eskimo-Aleut
D) Finno-Ugric
E) Tibetan

Question 50

By the early 1900s, high-culture citizens of Russian emulated another world region. Which region?

A) Japan
B) India
C) United States
D) China
E) Western Europe

Question 51

What are mikrorayons?

A) synthetic fabrics manufactured in Russia
B) authoritarian leaders who dominated politics during the pre-1917 Russian Empire
C) a cold-climate condition of unstable, seasonally frozen ground that limits the growth of vegetation
D) large housing projects built in the 1970s and 1980s in Russia
E) political units in Russia, equivalent to counties in the United States

Question 52

Which Russian port provides Russia with the most rapid access to the Pacific Ocean?

A) St. Petersburg
B) Norlisk
C) Vladivostok
D) Salekhard
E) Moscow

Question 53

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

A) a writing style that is similar to today's "reality TV"
B) an acting style in the Soviet domain
C) a musical style that emphasized traditional melodies, combined with classical instrumentation
D) an art style devoted to the realistic depiction of workers challenging nature or struggling against capitalism
E) a holistic approach to the arts in the former Soviet Union

Question 54

What was the purpose of Russification?

A) to drain some of the population from Moscow, which had become a primate city in the former USSR
B) to increase Russian dominance in outlying portions of the former USSR
C) to provide laborers to under-populated regions of the former USSR
D) to bring Russian teachers to under-populated regions of the former USSR
E) to establish military outposts for defensive purposes in the former USSR

Question 55

Urbanization in the Russian region

A) is far below that of Western Europe.
B) was often planned in detail during the Soviet period.
C) did not really increase significantly until the 1960s.
D) was helped by laws allowing unrestricted internal migration during the Soviet period.
E) was discouraged throughout the history of the Russian Domain.

Question 56

Eastward movement of Russians into Siberia

A) was typically discouraged by tsars.
B) was reversed by the policy of Russification.
C) was welcomed by the original inhabitants of Siberia.
D) continues today.
E) was encouraged by Stalin.

Question 57

What is the language of the Volga Tatars of the Russian Domain?

A) Kurdish
B) Turkish
C) Finnish
D) Chinese
E) Slavic

Question 58

What is the shape of the land-use zones in the Russian Domain?

A) square
B) triangular
C) linear
D) circular
E) hexagonal

Question 59

In what kind of housing do most average Russians live?

A) in a dacha in the country
B) in a single-family home in the suburbs
C) in a high rise apartment
D) in a boarding house
E) in a duplex

Question 60

What Russian city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet era?

A) Moscow
B) Kiev
C) Minsk
D) Chernobyl
E) St. Petersburg

Question 61

Stalin

A) forced state-controlled agriculture on peasantry.
B) promoted ethnic autonomy.
C) lived well into the 1970s.
D) came to power after the Cold War began.
E) is a beloved hero of the Soviet Union.

Question 62

What have many of Russia's internal autonomous areas been requesting?

A) greater connections with Moscow and the rest of Russia
B) greater autonomy
C) greater connections with China and Mongolia to the south
D) great transportation linkages to the ice-free ports of the Arctic Ocean
E) greater unity among themselves

Question 63

Which two countries were the primary rivals in the Cold War?

A) China and the Soviet Union
B) the United States and the Soviet Union
C) Germany and the Soviet Union
D) Russia and the Ukraine
E) the United States and Russia

Question 64

In what part of Russia are Finno-Ugric speaking peoples primarily located?

A) Eastern
B) Southern
C) Western
D) Northern
E) Central

Question 65

Which region in the Russian Domain had still not gained independence from Russia as of 2010?

A) Armenia
B) Azerbaijan
C) Sakha
D) Georgia
E) Ukraine

Question 66

Approximately what percentage of Russian citizens claim a Russian linguistic identity?

A) 50 percent
B) 65 percent
C) 80 percent
D) 95 percent
E) 100 percent

Question 67

The conquest of Siberia

A) was primarily carried out by Cossacks.
B) began in earnest in the late 1300s.
C) was complete when Russia defeated Japan in the Russo-Japanese War.
D) was initiated for security reasons.
E) involved war with China.

Question 68

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

A) Hinduism
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Judaism
E) Animism

Question 69

Where were most of Russia's major territorial gains in the nineteenth century?

A) Eastern Europe
B) Central Asia
C) Northern Europe
D) the Pacific region of Asia
E) the Baltic Republics

Question 70

In theory, which unique right was given to each of the former USSR's administratively autonomous "union republics"? (Note that in practice, this right was not truly available.)

A) the right to practice religious freedom
B) the right to speak their indigenous languages
C) the right to vote
D) the right to make international treaties
E) the right to secede

Question 71

Which geographic area of the Russian Domain dominates the region?

A) Armenia
B) the Ukraine
C) Slavic Russia
D) Belarus
E) Georgia

Question 72

What was the policy of the former Soviet Union (USSR)regarding religion within its borders?

A) The USSR established Russian Orthodox Christianity as the official state religion.
B) The USSR permitted freedom of religion for Christians, but not for Jews or Muslims.
C) The USSR was tolerant of all religious practices.
D) The USSR severely discouraged and even persecuted religious practice.
E) The USSR had no policy regarding religion.

Question 73

Which of the following is NOT a condition of the "Russian Federation Treaty"?

A) more localized political control for Russia's internal autonomous republics and lesser administrative units
B) more stringent environmental regulations and standards
C) greater economic freedom for Russia's internal autonomous republics and lesser administrative units
D) greater freedom for Russia's internal autonomous republics and lesser administrative units
E) weakening of Moscow's centralized authority to collect taxes

Question 74

Which natives of the Ukrainian and Russian steppe played a pivotal role in aiding Russian expansion into Siberia during the 16?? century?

A) Chechens
B) Slavs
C) Buryats
D) Tatars
E) Cossacks

Question 75

Why did the Russian military invade Chechnya in 1994?

A) because the Chechnya government attempted a military strike against Russia
B) because the Kazakh forces attempted to take Chechnyan territory from the Russians
C) because the Chechnyan government attempted to establish an independent state
D) to find Osama bin Laden
E) All of the choices are correct.

Question 76

What is the current policy toward religion in the Russian Domain in this post-Soviet era?

A) There has been a religious revival.
B) Religious persecution has worsened.
C) Roman Catholicism has become the dominant religion in the region.
D) There has been a sharp increase in the number of Jewish people living in the region.
E) Russia has become a theocracy.

Question 77

Russia

A) has allowed Chechnya to achieve independence.
B) fought several major land battles against China along their common border in the 1990s.
C) no longer has a seat on the UN Security Council.
D) refuses to return disputed territory to Japan.
E) will allow all its territories to secede in 2015, if they wish to do so.

Question 78

Who was the main architect of the Soviet Union?

A) Tsar Nicholas II
B) Stalin
C) Trotsky
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
E) Lenin

Question 79

Who were the Bolsheviks?

A) the last ruling dynasty of the Russian Empire
B) the earliest settlers of Russia, who came from Sweden
C) the title given to bureaucrats who ran the former Soviet Union
D) the militia group that overthrew the former Soviet Union
E) a faction of Russian communism representing interests of industrial workers, who established the former Soviet Union

Question 80

What is glasnost?

A) a USSR policy of greater openness during the 1980s that encouraged several Union Republics to demand independence
B) planned economic restructuring, an early move toward a freer market
C) a policy of education improvement, in the last days of the former Soviet Union
D) the Russian word for railroad
E) improvement of the Russian environment