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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 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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