Boston bombing suspects tied to Chechnya

Apr 22, 2013

Q: Authorities identified brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the suspected bombers at the Boston Marathon. Their family has roots in Chechnya which is located in the section of Russia between the Black and Caspian Seas. Can you find this area on the map?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: Chechnya is in a region of Eurasia that includes the countries of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia as well as parts of Russia, Turkey and Iran. What is this region called?

A. The Baltic

B. Belarus

C. The Caucasus

D. Siberia

Q: While Russian troops and Chechen rebels fought two brutal wars in the 1990s, the Tsarnaev family found refuge with ethnic Chechens in Kyrgyzstan in a region known as . . .

A. Central Asia

B. Far East

C. Subcontinent

D. Near East

Q: The Tsarnaev brothers reportedly identified with the cause of the Chechen separatists who want independence from Russia, where the predominant religion is Russian Orthodox. What is the top religion in Chechnya?

A. Atheism

B. Buddhism

C. Catholicism

D. Islam

Q: Islamist Chechen rebels have been blamed for a wave of terrorist attacks in Russia that killed hundreds, many of them schoolchildren. Chechens also reportedly fought on the side of the Taliban in . . .

A. Kosovo

B. Afghanistan

C. Iraq

D. Yemen

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