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6. When was the First Duma?

  • March to July 1906
  • April to June 1906
  • November to December 1906
  • June to September 1906

7. Which was the 'Duma of Lords and Lackies'?

  • First Duma
  • Third Duma
  • Fourth Duma
  • Second Duma

8. Which was the 'Duma of National Hope'?

  • Third Duma
  • First Duma
  • Fourth Duma
  • Second Duma

9. When was the Third Duma?

  • January 1908 to May 1913
  • November 1907 to June 1912
  • July 1905 to November 1908
  • April 1909 to October 1914

10. When was the Second Duma?

  • February to June 1907
  • February to October 1909
  • June to December 1905
  • March to June 1908

11. Which party membership more than doubled in the Second Duma?

  • Rightists
  • Octobrists
  • Mensheviks
  • Bolsheviks

12. What were the demands of the First Duma?

  • distribution of land and wealth, death penalty maintained, peasant debt cancelled and fairer voting system
  • distribution of wealth, fairer voting system, peasant debt cancelled and amnesty for prisoners of war
  • distribution of land and wealth, death penalty abolished, peasant debt cancelled and amnesty for prisoners of war
  • distribution of land, death penalty maintained, amnesty for prisoners of war

13. In the First Duma, how many votes were cast by landowners?

  • 31%
  • 35%
  • 42%
  • 46%

14. In the Third Duma, how many people could vote?

  • 2.5 million out of 140 million
  • 3.5 million out of 140 million
  • 6 million out of 140 million
  • 7 million out of 140 million

15. How many Francs did the Tsar loan from France in order to keep financial independence from the First Duma?

  • 2,250,000
  • 2,500,000
  • 3,000,000
  • 1,550,000

16. Which parties joined the Duma in 1907 for the Second Duma?

  • Rightists and Social Revolutionaries
  • Kadets and Bolsheviks
  • Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries
  • Octobrists and Kadets

17. Who said "the Romanov Russian empire remained - bruised, but unbroken" by the Duma experiment?

  • E. Acton
  • E.H. Carr
  • Alan Wood
  • M.S. Anderson

18. When did the government invoke Article 87?

  • August 1914, after the Fourth Duma was dissolved
  • June 1906, after the First Duma was dissolved
  • June 1907, after the Second Duma was dissolved
  • June 1912, after the Third Duma was dissolved

19. Under which Duma were Justices of the Peace restored?

  • Third Duma
  • Second Duma
  • Fourth Duma
  • First Duma

20. What led to the dissolve of the First Duma?

  • Popular protest
  • The vote of no confidence
  • Stolypin's opposition to it