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1. Who baptized Russia?
(A) Vladimir I
(B) Alexander I
(C) Catherine II
(D) Nicholas II

2. What Russian tsar was called Terrible?
(A) Vladimir
(B) Nicholas
(C) Ivan
(D) Elisabeth

3. What is Peter the Great known for?
(A) He Europeanised Russia
(B) He moved the capital to Moscow
(C) He killed the patriarch
(D) He wasted all the State money

4. What happened in Russia in year 1812?
(A) The war against the Turkish Empire broke out
(B) The peasants were liberated
(C) The war against Napoleon broke out
(D) The World War I broke out

5. Nicholas II:
(A) was killed in a war
(B) committed suicide
(C) was killed in a terrorist attack
(D) was shot by Bolsheviks

6. Alexander II is well-known in Russia because:
(A) he had a lot of lovers
(B) he liberated the peasants
(C) he won a lot of wars
(D) he fought against Napoleon

7. The Russian Revolution took place in:
(A) 1905
(B) 1914
(C) 1917
(D) 1918

8. Lenin's real first name and surname were:
(A) Alexander Ivanov
(B) Vladimir Ulyanov
(C) Ivan Denisov
(D) Sergei Kropotkin

9. Joseph Stalin was born in what city?
(A) Saint Petersburg
(B) Sochi
(C) Gori
(D) Omsk

10. Why is the year 1937 so significant in Russia?
(A) The World War II started
(B) It was a year of a great epidemic
(C) The Soviet Union commenced a large series of political repressions
(D) It was a period of fast economic growth for the USSR

11. The World War II is know in Russia as:
(A) Great War
(B) Saint Patriotic War
(C) Russian World War
(D) Great Patriotic War

12. The first period after Stalin's death is called:
(A) Khrushchev's Thaw
(B) Soviet-American arms race
(C) Perestroika
(D) The Great Patriotic War

13. Why is Mikhail Gorbachev so famous?
(A) he organized the perestroika
(B) he organized a great repression
(C) he started a war in Chechnya
(D) he was a political dissident

14. What happened during the period of 1991–1993 in Russia?
(A) economic crisis
(B) coups d'état attempt
(C) terrorist attacks
(D) great repressions

15. When did Putin become a president?
(A) in 1991
(B) in 1995
(C) in 2000
(D) in 2008