Globalization and Diversity, 5e (Rowntree et al.)
Chapter 9 The Russian Domain
1) 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 lowest altitude of any country on Earth.
E) It has the strongest economy on Earth.
2) Which geographic area of the Russian Domain dominates the region?
A) Armenia
B) the Ukraine
C) Slavic Russia
D) Belarus
E) Georgia
3) Which of the following was NOT a former Soviet Republic?
A) Kazakhstan
B) Uzbekistan
C) Kyrgyzstan
D) Afghanistan
E) Azerbaijan
4) During the Soviet era, the Soviet Union nuclear weapons program conducted many tests and
produced much radioactive waste. Where did Russia dump the waste?
A) Crimea
B) Sakhalin Island
C) Novaya Zemlya
D) Chernobyl
E) Moscow
5) Most of Russia is dominated by which type of climate?
A) mild midlatitude such as humid subtropical
B) dry climates such as midlatitude Steppe
C) tropical
D) polar such as tundra
E) continental midlatitude
6) What is NOT an environmental issue in the Russian Domain?
A) Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe
B) nuclear waste dumping
C) concentrated industrialization in Norilsk
D) immense deforestation
E) desertification
7) What natural feature marks the divide between European Russia and Asian Russia?
A) Lake Baikal
B) Ural Mountains
C) Black Sea
D) Caucasus Mountains
E) Volga River
8) 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.
9) Which of the following countries is NOT considered to be within the Russian Domain?
A) Armenia
B) Azerbaijan
C) Belarus
D) Georgia
E) Ukraine
10) 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
11) 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
12) 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.
13) What was the distinctive skill for which Cossacks were well-known?
A) fencing
B) art
C) music
D) horsemanship
E) business
14) Which of the following is NOT an agricultural product that thrives in the podzol soil region
of the Russian Domain?
A) sugarcane
B) grain
C) potatoes
D) swine and meat
E) dairying
15) 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
16) 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
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
18) In which region of the Russian Domain is permafrost a problem?
A) Siberia
B) Caucasus Mountains
C) Ukraine
D) Southern Russia
E) European Russia
19) 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
20) What is the dominant climate type in the Russian Domain?
A) dry
B) mild midlatitude
C) polar
D) continental
E) Mediterranean
21) Why is development in Siberia limited?
A) The mountainous terrain of the region makes it virtually impossible to create a transportation
infrastructure there.
B) Most of the area is a barren, dry desert leaving little available water to support human life.
C) In order to protect the fragile environment of this region, the Russian government has limited
the number of settlers into the region.
D) Indigenous groups of Siberian peoples will not allow development in their sacred ancestral
burial grounds.
E) Unstable ground resulting from permafrost makes it extremely difficult to place permanent
structures on the land surface.
22) Why is the Russian government constructing a concrete and steel arch around the destroyed
nuclear reactor in Chernobyl?
A) because the Ukraine government wants to hide the object of so much destruction and death
B) in hope of controlling the further spread of radioactive dust
C) people want to return to the abandoned cities and towns closed by the initial reactor meltdown
D) to stop curious tourists from wandering into the radioactive site
E) to house a new museum dedicated to the disaster
23) Which city is NOT in the European Russian domain?
A) Minsk
B) Moscow
C) Kiev
D) Odessa
E) Vladivostok
24) Which country is no longer part of the Russian Domain?
A) Belarus
B) Armenia
C) Ukraine
D) Kazakhstan
E) Moldova
25) What is one of the sources of the nuclear threat in the Russian Domain?
A) The Soviet Union had aggressive nuclear weapons and energy programs.
B) the West’s testing of nuclear weapons
C) the lack of funds to export nuclear weapons
D) the political vacuum created with the fall of the Soviet Union
E) the lack of political control by the Russian President
26) Which of the following is the primary source of pollution damaging 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) the development of the shipping yards on its shores
27) 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
28) 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
29) Which of the following is NOT an effect Russia might see from climate change?
A) More of the land in its northern regions may become suitable for agriculture.
B) Boreal forests may expand into what are now tundra regions.
C) Navigation may extend throughout the year in Russia’s northern waterways.
D) Thawing of Siberian permafrost may cause mud flows and erosion.
E) making Southern Russia more agriculturally productive by thawing its frozen ice
30) What has been the pattern of population growth in the Russian Domain since the demise of
the USSR?
A) persistently declining population
B) rapid population growth
C) slow population growth
D) steady population levels
E) rapid population decline, followed by steady growth
31) During the Soviet era, which place served as a repository for political dissidents and
troublemakers?
A) Ukraine
B) Siberia
C) Gulag Archipelago
D) prisons in the Gobi Desert
E) Crimea
32) What does the term “Russification” mean?
A) a policy of resettling Russians into non-Russian portions of the Soviet Union
B) a movement of people to housing projects called mikrorayons
C) a term describing the rusting of old industrial centers that have been abandoned
D) Soviet art depicting working heroes challenging nature and struggling against capitalism
E) a term much like manifest destiny in the United States in that a railroad will help unite the
east and the west sides of the nation
33) What is the approximate population of the Russian Domain?
A) 100 million
B) 150 million
C) 200 million
D) 250 million
E) 500 million
34) 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.
35) 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
36) When was the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad completed in the Russian Domain?
A) 1904
B) 1934
C) 1954
D) 1964
E) 1984
37) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, which of the following groups of people would be least
likely to emigrate from the Russian Domain?
A) young, well-educated people
B) Russian–born Finns
C) Jews
D) upwardly mobile Russians
E) older, less educated Russians.
38) 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 Russian leaders, including the Tsars and the authoritarian leaders under
the Soviet Union.
39) 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
40) 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.
41) 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) relatively high mortality rates among middle–aged males
42) In which country was Russification the most intense?
A) France
B) Kazakhstan
C) Mongolia
D) Germany
E) Armenia
43) 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 the port city of Vladivostok.
E) was extensively damaged by an earthquake in 2003.
44) What Russian city was known as Leningrad during the Soviet era?
A) Moscow
B) Kiev
C) Minsk
D) Chernobyl
E) St. Petersburg
45) 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
46) 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
47) 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.
48) In what region of the Russian Domain was the Soviet Union’s Gulag Archipelago located?
A) Siberia
B) Ukraine
C) Belarus
D) Georgia
E) Armenia
49) What was the purpose of Russification (the Soviet policy of resettling Russians into non-
Russian portions of the former USSR)?
A) to drain some of the population from Moscow, which had become a primate city
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