NCERT MCQ ON SOCIALISM IN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Question 1. Russian peasants were different from other European peasants because:
(a) They had no respect for the nobility
(b) They pooled their land together
(c) They were not different
(d) both (a) and (b)
Answer : D
Question 2. At the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of Russian people worked in the:
(a) Industrial sector
(b) Agricultural sector
(c) Mining sector
(d) Transport sector
Answer : B
Question 3. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct regarding what the ‘liberals’ wanted?
(a) Not to tolerate all the religions
(b) To oppose uncontrolled power of dynastic rulers
(c) Universal adult franchise
(d) Government appointed by the king
Answer : B
Question 4. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party?
(a) Karl marx
(b) Stalin
(c) Lenin
(d) Louis Blanc
Answer : B
Question 5. What was the main occupation of the people of Russia in the beginning of the 20th century?
(a) Manufacturing
(b) Fishing
(c) Poultry
(d) Agriculture
Answer : D
Question 6. Who was the successor of Lenin?
(a) Stalin
(b) Kerensky
(c) Trotsky
(d) Robert Owen
Answer : A
Question 7. What made aristocracy unpopular in Russia?
(a) The German origin of Tsarina
(b) Poor advisors like Monk Rasputin
(c) The huge cost of fighting world war 1
(d) A & B
Answer : D
Question 8.Who conspired in Italy to bring about a revolution?
(a) Bismarck
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Giuseppe Mazzini
(d) None
Answer : C
Question 9. Whom did Russia fight against in World War 1?
(a) Britain and France
(b) Germany and Austria
(c) America
(d) Britain
Answer : B
Question 10. Which of the following was not a feature of the October Manifesto?
(a) Freedom of speech, press and association
(b) Power to make laws conferred on the Duma
(c) Authority of the Tsar was reduced
(d) Final decision-making power was vested in the Tsar
Answer : D
Question 11.The people who wanted to put an immediate end to the existing governments in Europe (In 1815) were called:
(a) Nationalists
(b) liberals
(c) revolutionaries
(d) radicals
Answer : C
Question 12. How can you say that the ‘liberals’ were not ‘democrats’?
(a) They did not believe in universal adult franchise
(b) They felt that only men of property should have a right to vote
(c) Women should not have right to vote
(d) All the above
Answer : D
Question 13. Why did the Tsar dismiss the first Duma within 75 days of its election?
(a) Because it was incapable of taking good decisions
(b)Because the Tsar did not want anyone to question his authority
(c) The term of first Duma was of 75 days only
(d) None of the above
Answer : B
Question 14. On 27th February 1917, soldiers and striking workers gathered to form a council called
(a) Soviet Council
(b) Petrograd Soviet
(c) Moscow Union
(d) Russian Council
Answer : B
Question 15. Who started ‘Collectivization Programme’ in Russia?
(a) Lenin
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Rasputin
(d) Stalin
Answer : D
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