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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. How is power passed in Russia in 1067?
(a) From brother to brother.
(b) From father to son.
(c) From committee to committee.
(d) From mother to son.

2. Where does Ivan see Shchek for the second time?
(a) Dead on the side of the road.
(b) In a group of men about to be sold into slavery.
(c) In the monastery in Greece.
(d) In a marketplace in Moscow.

3. Where is Ivan taken?
(a) To a monastery in Italy.
(b) To the Prince of Polotsk.
(c) To Constantinople.
(d) To the House of Zhydovyn.

4. What is the veche?
(a) The police.
(b) The marketplace.
(c) An assembly.
(d) The borderland.

5. What is the goal of the Mongols?
(a) To subdue the Russians.
(b) To retake their ancient lands.
(c) To unify their people.
(d) To rule the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sviatopolk try to do?

2. What does Elena tell Boris that makes him happy?

3. Who is the monastery dedicated to that is built on land Melei gives to the priest?

4. What idea caused Patriarch Nikon to be exiled?

5. When did Patriarch Nikon's reforms begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has changed since the scenes set in 180 AD?

2. Describe Andrei Karpenko's relationship with Maryushka.

3. Describe Ivan's story.

4. Describe the setting and story being told when the story shifts to 1237.

5. Where does the novel begin?

6. What problem is Boris Bobrov having with his estate and how does he solve it?

7. What has changed by 1552?

8. What is the Bobrov family up to in 1647?

9. Who has the most power in this earliest chapter?

10. Describe the political state of Russia in 1262.

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