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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. No one can ever convince Alexandra that Rasputin is:

2. In January 1919, a special investigator finds the mine with its evidence of the ___________ of the Romanovs.

3. The official announcement is, initially, that the Tsar is executed and the rest of the family is ___________ in the evacuation of Ekaterinburg.

4. What is the name of the royal family member who leads the 1916/17 plot to assassinate Rasputin?

5. What is the name of the treaty that brings peace between Russia and Germany in the spring of 1918?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After visiting Rasputin for an illness, what conclusion does Felix Yussoupov draw about him?

4. What happens to all of the money that is sent to Siberia to help the Romanovs?

5. What do Rasputin's murderers believe is the outcome of his death?

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

7. On March 12, the day the revolution begins, what is the response of the Cabinet? What is significant about this action?

8. Instead of telling Nicholas that a revolution is taking place, what does Protopopov and Voeikov tell him about the events taking place in St. Petersburg, and how does he find out what is really happening?

9. To what is the collapse of the Russian monarchy near the end of World War I ultimately attributed?

10. In the period immediately following the assassination of Tsar Nicholas and his family, why do as many of his Romanov relatives as are able leave Russia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and demonstrate how Nicholas' agreement to the Imperial Manifesto and the establishment of the Duma (Russia's Parliament) both enable the revolutionaries and hasten the collapse of the Russian monarchy. Use the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and explain, supporting your remarks with the text, why Nicholas' plans to follow his father, Alexander's, autocratic principles as Tsar strengthen the revolutionaries' cause.

Essay Topic 3

Using the text and by doing research on the disease as well as using what is learned in class, describe and explain what hemophilia is, why it only occurs in males, and how Queen Victoria is believed to have become a carrier. How does this disease affect the Romanovs' fate?

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