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Quiz for the 5 th grade 1. Which monument never existed in ? A) The -Bell B) The Tsar- C) The Tsar-Ship 2. Name the central tower of which has the main clock of the country, the Kremlin chimes: A) B) Pokrovskaya tower C) tower 3. Which was the highest building in till the beginning of the 18 th century? A) Ivan the Great bell tower B) Cathedral of the Archangel C) Smolniy cathedral 4. Name the river in Moscow which was ‘hidden’ into a pipe: A) Kamennaya B) Likhoborka C) Neglinka 5. What is the name of the main governmental building of the capital? A) Kremlin B) Manezh C) Monetiy Dvor 6. Finish the saying: ‘Who has never been to Moscow - …’ A) … has been nowhere B) … has never seen beauty C) … has lost a lot 7. Name the capital of Russia under : A) Moscow B) Novgorod C) Saint-Petersburg 8. Name the first sculptural monument set up in Moscow: A) Monument to the poet A. S. Pushkin B) Monument to the citizen Kuzma Minin and prince Dmitriy Pozharskiy C) Monument to the writer N. V. Gogol

Quiz for the 6 th grade

1. When was the 850 th anniversary of Moscow celebrated? A) 2005 B) 2007 C) 1997 2. When was Moscow rebuilt with stone buildings? A) After the fire of 1571 B) After the fire of 1812 C) After the fire of 1905 3. Pokrovskiy cathedral (St. Basil’s Cathedral) was built to commemorate: A) The capture of B) The capture of Kazan C) The conquest of Siberia 4. The Dormition Cathedral in was built in the rule of the following person: A) Ivan I of Moscow B) Ivan III C) Ivan the Terrible 5. Name the remarkable saint of the Russian Orthоdox Church, after reading his biography: ‘He was born in the family of a . After his father’s bankruptcy due to the military campaign of Ivan I Kalita, he became a monk. He founded the Troitse-Sergiev monastery and became its Father Superior. The monastery soon turned into one of the main centers of Russian Orthodoxy and culture. He was the spiritual teacher of Moscow prince Dmitry Donskoi and his sons. He managed to create and develop a type of monasteries, new to the Russian lands, which relied not on the alms, but on their own economic activities. After his death he was canonized.’ A) B) Nil Sorsky C) Metropolitan Iona 6. Name the hill on which the first historical settlement of the city - the Moscow Kremlin Detinets - was built: A) Borovitsky B) Tagansky C) Ivanovskaya gorka 7. Name the first stone building built in the Kremlin: A) Cathedral of the Archangel B) The Dormition Cathedral C) The Annunciation Cathedral 8. Which symbol of Moscow stands on ? A) Moscow-City B) George the Victorious C) Monument to Peter the Great

Quiz for the 7 th grade

1. The puppet theatre, located in Moscow on the Garden ring, is named after the following person: A) V. D. Durov B) S. V. Obraztsov C) N. Y. Sats 2. Name the year Moscow is first mentioned in the annals: A) 1140 B) 1147 C) 1150 3. By whose order and when was the Saint Basil’s Cathedral built? A) , in 1150-1157 B) Feodor I, in 1585-1588 C) Ivan the Terrible, 1555-1561 4. Who headed the home guard, that freed Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian intervention? A) Ivan Feodorovich Troekurov B) Dmitry Pozharskiy and Kuzma Minin C) Gregoriy Konstantinovich Volkonsky 5. Who and when founded Moscow university? A) 1754, Mikhail Lomonosov B) 1724, Peter the Great C) 1899, Sergey Vitte 6. Who was Pavel Tretyakov, who gifted his collection to Moscow in 1856? A) Painter B) Diplomat C) Merchant 7. Name the year of the summer Olympic games in Moscow: A) 1980 B) 1975 C) 1990 8. What was the called in the 17 th century? A) Fire B) Flame C) Flood