Sample Qualifying Exams and Answer Keys
1. Which of these rivers of Asiatic Russia does not flow into the Arctic Ocean?
A) Ob
B) Lena
C) Yenisei
D) Amur
2. Which Russian city is a terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
A)Kaliningrad
B) Murmansk
C) Sochi
D) Vladivostok
3. A ride on the Trans-Siberian Railroad would pass through which of these cities?
A) Kaliningrad
B) Murmansk
C) St. Petersburg
D) Irkutsk
4 . The Sakha Republic is by area the largest subnational governing region in the world, and is located in?
A) The Russian Far East
B) Antarctica
C) Northern Canada
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Borscht, Beef Stroganoff, Solyanka, and tea made from a Samovar are elements of the
culinary heritage of which country?
A) Sweden
B) Turkey
C) Russia
D) Portugal
6. Which is the only country in the world to border both Norway and North Korea?
A) Canada
B) China
C) Sweden
D) Russia
7. The delta of which Russian river lies north of the Arctic Circle?
A) Ob
B) Volga
C) Don
D) Amur
8. Which river of Asiatic Russia does not flow into the Arctic Ocean?
A) Ob
B) Yenisei
C) Amur
D) Lena
9. Which is currently the largest country on earth by total land area?
A) China
B) Russia
C) USA
D) Brazil
10. Which of these countries has a coastline along the Arctic Ocean?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Russia
D) Iraq
11. Siberia is found in which of these areas?
A) Asiatic Russia
B) Southern China
C) North Africa
D) Middle East
12 . Which of these countries is found in both Europe and Asia?
A) Germany
B) Russia
C) China
D) Vietnam
13 . Russia maintains an exclave on the Baltic Sea known as the ________ Oblast?
A) Chukchi
B) Kamchatka
C) Chechnya
D) Kaliningrad
14 . The Yenisseian, Tungusic, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages are spoken in which region?
A) Asiatic Russia
B) Rub al-Khali
C) Newfoundland
D) Florida Keys
15. Which region of Russia is crossed by a namesake railroad that ends in Vladivostok?
a) Siberia
b) Chechnya
c) Tver
d) Kaliningrad
16. The eastern boundary of European Russia is often considered to be what north-south mountain range?
a) Urals
b) Caucasus
c) Siberian Alps
d) Novgors
ANSWER KEY
1 . D
2 . D
3 . D
4 . A
5 . C
6 . D
7. A
8 . C
9. B
10. C
11 . A
12. B
13. D
14 . A
15. A
16 . A
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