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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. Why does the royal trains stop wherever there is a cool spot or water available?
(a) Because travel is cold and damp.
(b) Because the trains overheat often.
(c) Because there is no water on the trains.
(d) Because travel is hot and stuffy.

2. What is the name of the royal yacht?
(a) The Queen Mary.
(b) The Standart.
(c) The Simbirsk.
(d) The Crimea.

3. What does the jeweler Faberge make every Easter for Nicholas' wife and mother?
(a) Jeweled eggs.
(b) Jewel-encrusted crowns.
(c) Jeweled rabbits.
(d) Jeweled crosses.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alexandra rarely leave the yacht?

2. When Guchkov and Shulgan arrive to confer with Nicholas, to whom does he abdicate his throne in favor of?

3. What happens on March 21, 1917?

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

5. What does the Tsar change the name of St. Petersburg to on August 31, 1914?

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