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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Taxes on the sale of vodka contribute to the government _______________.
(a) Deficit.
(b) Revenues.
(c) Profits.
(d) Corruption.

2. When Guchkov and Shulgan arrive to confer with Nicholas, to whom does he abdicate his throne in favor of?
(a) The revolutionaries.
(b) His wife Alexandra.
(c) His brother Michael.
(d) His son Alexis.

3. Why do the Romanovs have two identical royal trains that travel a few miles apart?
(a) Because the family and their attendants are so large.
(b) Because of the danger of revolutionaries.
(c) Because of the danger of foreign invaders.
(d) In case one train breaks down.

4. What region of Russia, where the Romanovs go every spring and celebrate Easter, is the family's favorite?
(a) The Urals.
(b) The Crimea.
(c) The Ukraine.
(d) Siberia.

5. When do Tsars invoke the blessing of the icon the Vladimir Mother of God?
(a) During peace.
(b) When they are crowned.
(c) During war.
(d) Before they go to bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the revolution begins, what is Nicholas writing to Alexandra about?

2. Why does the royal trains stop wherever there is a cool spot or water available?

3. How does the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty end in March, 1917?

4. A crowd storms the German __________ and vandalizes its furnishings and artwork.

5. What happens on March 21, 1917?

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