SparkNotes: Vladimir Lenin: Review Test

1. Where was Lenin born?

(A) Switzerland

(B) St. Petersburg

(C) Simbirsk

(D) Georgia

2. What was Lenin's father's profession?

(A) Lawyer

(B) Inspector of schools

(C) Revolutionary

(D) Professor

3. What was Lenin's older brother's name?

(A) Ilya

(B) Alexander

(C) Vladimir

(D) Nicholas

4. Whom was Lenin's brother accused of trying to assassinate?

(A) Nicholas II

(B) George III

(C) Rasputin

(D) Alexander III

5. Lenin received a degree from St. Petersburg in what field?

(A) Medicine

(B) Law

(C) Political Science

(D) Economics

6. What was the name of the first Russian Marxist party?

(A) The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

(B) The Communist Party

(C) The Russian Social Marxist Party

(D) The National Socialist Party

7. What was Lenin's wife named?

(A) Svetlana Krupskana

(B) Nadezhda Armand

(C) Inessa Armand

(D) Nadezhda Krupskaya

8. Where were Lenin and his wife married?

(A) St. Petersburg

(B) Paris

(C) Switzerland

(D) Siberia

9. What was the name of the paper that Lenin worked on from 1900-1903?

(A) Pravda

(B) The Revolutionary

(C) Das Kapital

(D) Iskra

10. What is the English translation of this paper's name?

(A) "Truth"

(B) "Revolution"

(C) "Proletariat"

(D) "The Spark"

11. In 1903, the Russian Marxists split into two factions. What were the names of these?

(A) Bolsheviks and Social Democrats

(B) Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

(C) Bolsheviks and Socialists

(D) Mensheviks and Leninists

12. What group did Lenin lead?

(A) Bolsheviks

(B) Socialists

(C) Christian Democrats

(D) Mensheviks

13. What was the name of the opposing party's leader?

(A) Stalin

(B) Martov

(C) Trotsky

(D) Plekhanov

14. With what country did Russia go to war in 1904?

(A) Japan

(B) Germany

(C) Britain

(D) Turkey

15. In order to end the 1905 Revolution, Nicholas II was forced to do what?

(A) Allow for the formation of an elected "Duma"

(B) Abdicate

(C) Share power with the Bolsheviks

(D) Invade Germany

16. Where did Lenin live primarily in the years before World War I?

(A) St. Petersburg

(B) Western Europe

(C) Georgia

(D) America

17. The school that Lenin opened outside Paris was run with the help of whom?

(A) Krupskaya and Martov

(B) Stalin and Trotsky

(C) Krupskaya and Inessa Armand

(D) Trotsky and Inessa Armand

18. Where was Lenin living when World War I broke out?

(A) St. Petersburg

(B) London

(C) Poland

(D) France

19. When did World War I begin?

(A) August 1918

(B) September 1916

(C) August 1914

(D) November 1917

20. Who was Russia's chief antagonist in the war?

(A) Britain

(B) America

(C) Germany

(D) Japan

21. When did the Nicholas II abdicate and the Russian Revolution begin?

(A) May 1915

(B) March 1917

(C) November 1917

(D) January 1920

22. What institution replaced the Tsar's administration?

(A) The Constituent Assembly

(B) The Provisional Government

(C) The Politburo

(D) The Moscow Soviet

23. Who was the leader of the Provisional Government in autumn of 1917?

(A) Kerensky

(B) Lenin

(C) Trotsky

(D) Kornilov

24. Who sent Lenin back to Russia from Switzerland in a sealed train?

(A) The Germans

(B) The Swiss

(C) The English

(D) The French

25. When did the Bolsheviks seize power?

(A) May 1917

(B) November 1917

(C) November 1919

(D) August 1914

26. What action by the Bolsheviks ended the war with Germany?

(A) Their victory in the battle of Tannenberg

(B) Their surrendering

(C) Their defeat in the battle of Stalingrad

(D) Their signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

27. What was the Bolshevik stance toward the Constituent Assembly?

(A) They recognized it but did not actively aid it in its activities

(B) They objected to it and broke it up

(C) They recognized it and supported it, only to undermine it from within

(D) They lobbied for the Russian people to vote for its demise

28. In the ensuing civil war, the opposition to the Bolsheviks were known as what?

(A) The Reds

(B) The Loyalists

(C) The Monarchists

(D) The Whites

29. Who supported the Bolsheviks' opposition in the civil war?

(A) Britain, France, and the United States

(B) Germany and Austria

(C) China

(D) Turkey

30. What was the fate of Nicholas II and his family?

(A) They became Marxists

(B) They fled to Germany

(C) They were all shot by the Bolsheviks

(D) They fled to Britain

31. Who organized the Red Army?

(A) Stalin

(B) Lenin

(C) Trotsky

(D) Martov

32. Who were the "kulaks" in Lenin's rhetoric?

(A) Wealthy peasants

(B) Red soldiers

(C) Bolshevik supporters

(D) White soldiers

33. Lenin's campaign against the peasantry was called what?

(A) The Great Terror

(B) The Red Terror

(C) The Great Leap Forward

(D) The New Economic Plan (N.E.P.)

34. What was the name of the woman who nearly assassinated Lenin in 1918?

(A) Fanya Kaplan

(B) Anna Karenina

(C) Kristin Lavransdottir

(D) Inessa Armand

35. In what year did World War I end?

(A) 1916

(B) 1922

(D) 1918

36. Who invaded Russia in May 1920?

(A) Poland

(B) Germany

(C) Austria

(D) Japan

37. How many deaths (approximately) did the famine of 1921 cause in Russia?

(A) 10,000,000

(B) 5,000,000

(C) 50,000

(D) 1,000,000

38. What did the White forces in Russia do in winter of 1920?

(A) They launched a last-ditch assault on Moscow

(B) They suffered a defeat and were evacuated across the Black Sea

(C) They swore allegiance to the Bolsheviks

(D) They retreated into Germany

39. What did Lenin do in response to the Kronstadt Mutiny?

(A) He ordered the beginning of the Red Terror

(B) He initiated the Five Year Plan

(C) He ordered Stalin arrested

(D) He put the New Economic Policy into effect

40. In what year did Inessa Armand die?

(A) 1917

(B) 1920

(D) 1914

41. What did the Bolsheviks rename themselves in 1922?

(A) The Social Democrats

(B) The Communist Party

(C) The Socialist Party

(D) The Mensheviks

42. What was the name of Bolshevik-ruled Russia?

(A) The Russian Federation

(B) The Russian Republic

(C) The Soviet Union

(D) The United States of Russia

43. The inner circle of Bolsheviks was known as what?

(A) The Communist Committee

(B) The Cabinet

(C) The Politburo

(D) The Comintern

44. When did Lenin suffer his first stroke?

(A) 1920

(B) 1924

(D) 1914

45. As Lenin neared death, a rivalry developed between which two people?

(A) Stalin and Trotsky

(B) Stalin and Kamenev

(C) Trotsky and Bukharin

(D) Stalin and Krupskaya

46. In his Testament, Lenin warned against the increasing power of which person?

(A) Stalin

(B) Trotsky

(C) Krupskaya

(D) Kamenev

47. When did Lenin die?

(A) January 1922

(B) January 1924

(C) March 1925

(D) September 1922

48. Who gradually took over control of the Soviet Union after Lenin died?

(A) Trotsky

(B) Zinoviev

(C) Kamenev

(D) Stalin

49. After his death, what happened to Lenin's body?

(A) It was embalmed and placed in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

(B) It was buried in his birthplace, Simbirsk

(C) It was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square

(D) It was cremated, and his ashes scattered