2C.2.3 The Provisional Government and its opponents, February–October 1917 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. Who was the official leader of the first Provisional Government formed in March 1917?

   • Leon Trotsky
   • Prince Lvov
   • Vladimir Lenin
   • Alexander Kerensky

2. Which famous slogan summarised Lenin's demands in his April Theses of 1917?

   • Peace, Land, Bread
   • Victory at All Costs
   • Blood and Iron
   • All Power to Tsar

3. Who led a failed right-wing military coup against the Provisional Government in August 1917?

   • General Kornilov
   • Admiral Kolchak
   • General Denikin
   • General Brusilov

4. Who chaired the Military Revolutionary Committee that organised the October 1917 Bolshevik uprising?

   • Alexander Kerensky
   • Vladimir Lenin
   • Leon Trotsky
   • Joseph Stalin

5. In which month and year did the Bolsheviks forcibly dissolve the Constituent Assembly?

   • March 1917
   • October 1917
   • May 1918
   • January 1918

6. Which decree issued by the Petrograd Soviet in March 1917 severely undermined military discipline?

   • Decree on Peace
   • Order No. 1
   • April Theses
   • Fundamental Laws

7. To which country was Lenin forced to flee following the failed July Days of 1917?

   • Sweden
   • Germany
   • Finland
   • Switzerland

8. Which military force gave the Petrograd Soviet practical military control over the capital in 1917?

   • Imperial Guard
   • Cossack cavalry
   • Petrograd garrison
   • Red Army

9. Which foreign policy goal in the Milyukov Note of April 1917 caused mass street protests?

   • Continuing the war
   • Immediate armistice
   • Territorial surrender
   • Allied reparations

10. Which Minister of War launched the failed Russian military offensive in June 1917?

    • Pavel Milyukov
    • Alexander Kerensky
    • Prince Lvov
    • Leon Trotsky

11. Which failed military campaign in June 1917 severely weakened Kerensky's Provisional Government?

    • Battle of Tannenberg
    • Kerensky Offensive
    • Kornilov Affair
    • Brusilov Offensive

12. Which armed group did Kerensky supply with weapons to defeat General Kornilov in August 1917?

    • Kadets
    • White Army
    • Red Guards
    • Imperial Guard

13. Which famous Bolshevik slogan appealed directly to war-weary soldiers and hungry workers in 1917?

    • Freedom and Unity
    • Peace, Land, Bread
    • Workers of Russia
    • All Power, Soviets

14. To which future elected body did the Provisional Government delay the issue of land reform?

    • Constituent Assembly
    • Petrograd Soviet
    • Imperial Council
    • State Duma

15. Which building did Bolshevik forces storm on 25 October 1917 to overthrow the Provisional Government?

    • The Tauride Palace
    • The Peter-Paul Fortress
    • The Winter Palace
    • The Smolny Institute

16. What policy decision regarding the First World War fatally weakened the Provisional Government?

    • Surrendering territory
    • Continuing the war
    • Declaring neutrality
    • Signing a peace

17. Which document published by Lenin in April 1917 called for an immediate socialist revolution?

    • The April Theses
    • The Peace Decree
    • The October Manifesto
    • Order Number 1

18. Which political party won the most seats in the November 1917 Constituent Assembly elections?

    • Socialist Revolutionaries
    • Mensheviks
    • Constitutional Democrats
    • Bolsheviks

19. Who served as Prime Minister of the Provisional Government during the October Revolution?

    • Prince Lvov
    • Lavr Kornilov
    • Pavel Milyukov
    • Alexander Kerensky

20. What term describes the sharing of authority between the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet?

    • Democratic Centralism
    • Dual Power
    • War Communism
    • Red Terror

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