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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. Who asks Moscow for permission to transfer the Romanovs to Ekaterinburg?
(a) The West Siberian Soviet.
(b) The Ural Regional Soviet.
(c) Boris Soloviev.
(d) The Duma.

2. What does Nicholas need in order to go outside of the palace after he and Alexandra are arrested?
(a) Advance permission.
(b) A military escort.
(c) Keys.
(d) A police escort.

3. When Rodzianko finally convinces Nicholas, who is still at Stavka, that the violence and strike in Petrograd are serious, what does he NOT do?
(a) Make plans to return to Petrograd.
(b) Dissolve the Duma.
(c) Send troops from the front into the city to restore order.
(d) Send his family out of the city for their safety.

4. Under Russian law, what is Kerensky's call for removal of the Tsar?
(a) Slander of a public official.
(b) Sedition.
(c) Treason.
(d) Inciting a riot.

5. As the revolution begins, what is Nicholas writing to Alexandra about?
(a) Preparing to flee with her family to safety.
(b) Trout fishing.
(c) His plans to save the monarchy.
(d) Playing dominoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the injuries inflicted upon Rasputin by his assassins is the actual cause of his death?

2. What happens five days after the Tsar relinquishes control of the government?

3. When Lenin returns to Petrograd in April 1917, he calls for the ___________ of the Provisional Government.

4. Where is Stavka, the field headquarters, located?

5. What is the date by which Rasputin, writing before his death, predicts he will be dead and which, indeed, turns out to be the day his body is found?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the letter that turns out to prophesy his death as well as the fate of the monarchy, what does Rasputin say happens to the Romanovs if his death is at the hands of peasants or commoners? Likewise, what does he say happens to the monarchy if his death is at the hands of nobles?

2. Under what conditions does England agree to grant the Romanovs asylum, and why is the request eventually withdrawn?

3. After initially abdicating the throne to Alexis, why does Nicholas change his mind and turn it over to his brother Michael?

4. How are the Romanovs lured to their deaths, and who tells them they were going to die? How long after the announcement of their impending death are the Romanovs killed?

5. Why does Alexandra move Anna Vyrubova into an apartment in the Alexander Palace?

6. In agreeing to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, what territory does Russia give up?

7. When the Romanovs arrived in Tyumen, in what condition does Kobylinsky find the Governor's house, where the Romanovs are to live?

8. When Colonel Kobylinsky is placed in charge of the Romanovs, how does the way in which they are treated change?

9. Under the 'protection' of Captain Kotzebue's revolutionaries, how are the Romanovs treated at first?

10. When Alexis suffers a nosebleed and Rasputin is sent for, what does Rasputin do when he arrives and what happens afterward?

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