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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 hot and stuffy.
(b) Because the trains overheat often.
(c) Because there is no water on the trains.
(d) Because travel is cold and damp.

2. How does the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty end in March, 1917?
(a) Alexandra also abdicates the throne.
(b) The revolutionaries assassinate the Romanovs.
(c) Alexis also abdicates the throne.
(d) Michael also abdicates the throne.

3. Russia has to limit the amount of _____________ their soldiers use in one day because of shortages.
(a) Water.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Food.
(d) Vodka.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Romanovs have two identical royal trains that travel a few miles apart?

2. What region of Russia, where the Romanovs go every spring and celebrate Easter, is the family's favorite?

3. On what date does the provisional government receive official recognition from the United States?

4. What does the jeweler Faberge make every Easter for Nicholas' wife and mother?

5. What happens on March 21, 1917?

(see the answer key)

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