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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what language does Nicholas want all business conducted?
(a) Russian.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

2. Which option lists the names of Nicholas and Alexandra's daughters in order of their birth?
(a) Marie, Anastasia, Olga, and Tatiana.
(b) Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia.
(c) Anastasia, Marie, Tatiana, and Olga.
(d) Tatiana, Olga, Marie, and Anastasia.

3. This Russian wins the Nobel Prize in 1904:
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Ivan Pavlov.
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

4. Which Russian Prime Ministers does Alexandra send Rasputin to meet with?
(a) Goremykin and Kokovtsov.
(b) Goremykin and Witte.
(c) Goremykin and Stolypin.
(d) Stolypin and Kokovtsov.

5. Which European ruler is the blood cousin of Tsar Nicholas II?
(a) Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
(b) Queen Victoria of England.
(c) President Emile Loubet of France.
(d) Kaiser William II of Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alexandra calls Rasputin the night they all think Alexis dies, what does he say?

2. On what date is Alexis, the male heir to the throne of Russia, born?

3. From where does Tsar Nicholas announce Germany's declaration of war on Russia to his subjects?

4. What German author's writings influence Lenin?

5. Nicholas and Alexandra's first home is at the palace in:

Short Essay Questions

1. After the Archduke's assassination, Austria presents an ultimatum to Serbia, to which it expects a response within forty-eight hours in order to prevent it declaring war upon Serbia. What demands do Austria's ultimatum place upon Serbia?

2. How is Queen Victoria believed to have become a carrier of the hemophilia gene?

3. Catherine the Great is German, not Russian. How does she become Empress of Russia?

4. With which religious, sexually immoral, sect is Rasputin accused of having an association?

5. What begins to appear in public after Iliodor and his supporters are sent into seclusion?

6. When Alexis injures himself at Spala, who comes from St. Petersburg to help him?

7. After Stolypin and Kokovtsov each have personal interviews with Rasputin when they are in office, what happens to them?

8. In the Russian system of autocracy, to whom is the Tsar responsible?

9. Why does a riot that kills hundreds of people take place in Moscow, and at what event, on the day following Nicholas' coronation?

10. When World War I begins, the Tsar is reluctant to become involved because Russia is not prepared for war. Why is Russia not prepared for war?

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