Test Bite

1. How many Five-Year Plans did Stalin make for the economy between 1928 and 1938?

two
three
four

2. What was the name of the state planning agency that drew up the plans?

GOSPLAN
State Planning Agency
NKVD

3. What did the first two plans concentrate on improving?

housing
consumer goods
heavy industry

4. What name was given to the keen young communists who planted new towns in barren areas?

Pioneers
Piatiletkas
Young Guards

5. Which coal miner set an example to the entire country?

Oleg Koshevoy
Nikifor Kunitsin
Aleksei Stakhanov

6. Production of coal rose...

...from 3 to 15 million tonnes
...from 2 to 29 million tonnes
...from 36 to 130 million tonnes

7. Production of iron rose...

...from 3 to 15 million tonnes
...from 2 to 29 million tonnes
...from 36 to 130 million tonnes

8. Production of oil rose...

...from 3 to 15 million tonnes
...from 2 to 29 million tonnes
...from 36 to 130 million tonnes

9. Which of the following was not achieved by the Five-Year Plans?

The Dneiper Dam
The Trans-Siberian Railway
The Belomor Canal

10. What was Magnitogorsk (in Siberia)?

A huge electricity works.
A huge car factory.
A huge steelworks.

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