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

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

3. What happens on March 21, 1917?
(a) Nicholas and Alexandra are arrested for their own safety.
(b) Michael abdicates the throne.
(c) Nicholas and Alexandra are assassinated.
(d) Nicholas abdicates the throne.

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

5. A crowd storms the German __________ and vandalizes its furnishings and artwork.
(a) Embassy.
(b) Consulate.
(c) Border.
(d) Passport office.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Alexandra rarely leave the yacht?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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