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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. As Nicholas returns to Petrograd, why is the train detoured to Pskov?

4. From where does Tsar Nicholas announce Germany's declaration of war on Russia to his subjects?

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

(see the answer key)

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