Russian language - Quiz
A) Economic competition and trade disputes B) Feudal divisions and conflicts C) Geographical barriers and harsh winters D) Religious differences and foreign invasions
A) Foreign language influences B) Dialectal differences C) Literacy rates among peasants D) The use of Church Slavonic
A) The 13th and 14th centuries B) The 18th and 19th centuries C) The 15th and 16th centuries D) The 17th and 18th centuries
A) The demands of the peasant population B) Pressure from Western European nations C) The re-emergence of a common political, economic, and cultural space D) Decrees issued by the church
A) Foreign merchants B) The government bureaucracy C) The Russian Orthodox Church D) The intellectual elite
A) High rates of illiteracy among nobles B) The inability to translate foreign texts into Russian C) The lack of a reliable communication tool in administrative, legal, and judicial affairs D) Disputes over Church Slavonic grammar
A) Northern peasant dialects B) Western European trade jargon C) Pure Church Slavonic D) Moscow official or chancery language
A) The 12th to 14th centuries B) The 17th to 19th centuries C) The 18th to 20th centuries D) The 15th to 17th centuries
A) Mongol was the official court language B) French was spoken by the nobility C) Latin was preferred by the government D) The church used Church Slavonic
A) By the 15th century B) By the 17th century C) By the 19th century D) By the 18th century
A) Reducing dialectical barriers between ethnic Russians B) Replacing regional alphabets with Latin script C) Enforcing a strict grammar code for peasants D) Eliminating foreign loan words completely
A) Creating a universal global language B) Mandating Russian instruction in all foreign schools C) Expanding the use of Russian alongside or in favour of other languages D) Translating all world literature into Russian
A) Classical Church Slavonic B) Old East Slavic C) Contemporary Standard Russian D) Imperial Court Russian
A) During the mid-19th century B) After the Bolshevik Revolution C) At the beginning of the 18th century D) At the end of the 15th century
A) Ivan the Terrible B) Mikhail Lomonosov C) Nikolai Karinsky D) Peter the Great
A) The Church Slavonic tradition B) The Moscow dialect substratum C) The southern peasant dialect D) The St. Petersburg court dialect
A) An eastern dialectal base B) A southern dialectal base C) A northern dialectal base D) A western dialectal base
A) The influence of Church Slavonic scholars B) Foreign invasions and resettlements C) The attraction of southern dialectal speakers after Moscow became the center of a unified state D) Government decrees moving populations
A) To eliminate the influence of the church entirely B) For the development of a modern system of government, education, and science C) To appease the peasant majority D) To make Russian the global language of trade
A) Church Slavonic B) French C) Latin D) Old Norse
A) Mikhail Lomonosov B) Nikolai Karinsky C) A. M. Ivanov D) L. P. Yakubinsky
A) A translation of the Bible B) A theoretical system of stylistic registers C) A new Cyrillic alphabet D) A comprehensive peasant dictionary
A) Several new literary genres B) Scientific terminology for physics C) New printing press methods D) New administrative legal codes
A) Marxist linguistics B) Church Slavonic revival C) Peasant dialects D) Modern Russian
A) Unmodified peasant dialects B) Exclusive French C) Pure Church Slavonic D) The spoken form of the Russian language of that social group
A) Church Slavonic B) Their own dialects C) Urban slang D) Contemporary Standard Russian
A) It was considered identical to the Moscow dialect B) Peasants refused to speak to scholars C) It was regarded as simply a source of folklore and an object of curiosity D) The government banned the study of dialects
A) Nikolai Karinsky B) Mikhail Lomonosov C) L. P. Yakubinsky D) A. M. Ivanov
A) Lexical material and folklore B) Syntax and vocabulary C) Phonetics and morphology D) Etymology and foreign influences
A) Local dictionaries B) Religious texts C) Political manifestos D) Comprehensive national grammars
A) As the true foundation of the future national language B) As a relic of the rapidly disappearing past not worthy of scholarly attention C) As a rich source of scientific terminology D) As an essential element of modern industry
A) A. M. Ivanov and L. P. Yakubinsky B) Peter the Great and his ministers C) Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolai Karinsky D) Foreign Marxist theorists
A) A unified grammar system B) A strong bureaucratic structure C) A strict standardization D) A motley diversity
A) Knowledge of Church Slavonic B) Advanced technical skills C) Their local peasant dialects D) Standard literary Russian
A) The revival of feudal divisions B) The liquidation of peasant inheritance by way of leveling local dialects C) The adoption of Western European literary genres D) The widespread study of dialectal syntax
A) An aristocratic court dialect B) A refined peasant literary language C) A revived Church Slavonic D) The general language of the working class
A) Creating the general urban language of a given society B) Promoting multiple competing standard languages C) Preserving regional peasant dialects D) Reverting to church-dominated languages
A) Turkic B) Romance C) Indo-European D) Finno-Ugric
A) Celtic B) Balto-Slavic C) Hellenic D) Germanic
A) Two B) Three C) Five D) Four
A) Russian Empire B) Soviet Union C) Austro-Hungarian Empire D) Yugoslavia
A) Poland B) Mongolia C) Kazakhstan D) Finland
A) Latvia B) Lithuania C) Belarus D) Ukraine
A) Tajikistan B) Turkmenistan C) Azerbaijan D) Uzbekistan
A) Lingua franca B) Secret code C) Dead language D) Sacred language
A) Exactly 100 million B) Over 1 billion C) Under 50 million D) Over 210 million
A) North America B) South America C) Asia D) Europe
A) Least spoken B) Most geographically widespread C) Most complex grammar D) Oldest
A) Third B) Seventh C) First D) Eleventh
A) Eleventh B) Twentieth C) Second D) Seventh
A) Five B) Six C) Seven D) Four
A) Cyrillic script B) Latin script C) Arabic script D) Greek script
A) Dental secondary articulation B) Velar secondary articulation C) Palatal secondary articulation D) Glottal secondary articulation
A) Deletion B) Capitalization C) Lengthening D) Reduction
A) Often unpredictable B) Always on the last syllable C) Completely regular D) Always on the first syllable
A) Acute accent B) Grave accent C) Tilde D) Circumflex
A) Lock B) Hammer C) Window D) Castle
A) Lock B) Castle C) Key D) Door
A) Its English translation B) Multiple grammatical features C) The word's origin D) A single isolated sound
A) Less actively B) More actively C) Identically D) Not at all
A) Numeric codes B) Descriptive phrases C) Abbreviations D) Foreign loanwords
A) tverdiy put B) stalnaya doroga C) zhelezny put D) zheleznaya doroga
A) železný B) cesta C) železnice D) železná dráha
A) rossiysky yazyk B) sovetsky yazyk C) russky yazyk D) slavyansky yazyk
A) Kiev B) Rus C) Novgorod D) Moscow
A) Latin influence B) German influence C) Greek influence D) Turkic influence
A) slaviansky B) rossiysky C) russky D) vostochny
A) Slang B) Colloquial style C) Low style D) High style
A) Slang B) Foreign C) Modern D) Archaic
A) ross B) slaviansky C) sovetsky D) russky
A) Belarusian B) Czech C) Polish D) Bulgarian
A) Old Novgorod B) Church Slavonic C) Trasianka D) Surzhyk
A) Surzhyk B) Cyrillic C) Trasianka D) Old Novgorod
A) Hebrew B) Arabic C) Bulgarian D) Dutch
A) 1453 B) 1492 C) 1850 D) 1900
A) Novgorod B) Moscow C) Kiev D) Constantinople
A) English B) Latin C) Hebrew D) Dutch
A) Level III B) Level IV C) Level II D) Level I
A) Washington, D.C. B) Moscow, Russia C) Monterey, California D) London, England
A) 2,000 hours B) 300 hours C) 500 hours D) 1,100 hours
A) Eighth-largest B) Fifth-largest C) Seventh-largest D) Sixth-largest
A) Arabic B) Spanish C) Portuguese D) Mandarin
A) 2026 B) 2024 C) 2030 D) 2025
A) 74.8% B) 55.0% C) 71.1% D) 24.9%
A) English B) German C) Polish D) French
A) 7.2% B) 14.5% C) 5.0% D) 29.6%
A) 137,500,000 B) 14,400,000 C) 5,094,928 D) 29,000,000
A) Almost 60% B) 9% C) 82% D) 30%
A) 2% B) 50% C) 26% D) 30%
A) 26% B) 15% C) 30% D) 5%
A) 2% B) 7% C) 26% D) 5%
A) Abkhaz B) Georgian C) English D) Russian
A) Abkhaz B) Azerbaijani C) Russian D) Armenian
A) 1,854,700 B) 482,200 C) 10,309,500 D) 54,460
A) 2006 B) 2023 C) 1996 D) 2005
A) 84.8% B) 50% C) 70% D) 100%
A) 1,854,700 B) 10,309,500 C) 54,460 D) 482,200
A) 1991 B) 1996 C) 2005 D) 2009
A) 12% B) 30% C) 14.2% D) 84.8%
A) 1996 B) 2023 C) 2006 D) 2005 |
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