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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Romanovs' approach to publicizing Alexis' Spala injury?
(a) They only tell close friends and immediate family.
(b) They only tell the citizens of Spala and St. Petersburg and swear them to secrecy on pain of death.
(c) They use it as an opportunity to educate Russians about hemophilia.
(d) They keep it a secret from the world.

2. What happens to Alexis while the family is vacationing at Spala?
(a) He has a hemorrhage in his groin and thigh.
(b) He has a hemorrhage in his knee and calf.
(c) He has a hemorrhage in his groin and abdomen.
(d) He has a hemorrhage in his thigh and knee.

3. How does Alexandra meet Rasputin?
(a) Through Alexis' bodyguards.
(b) Through Nicholas.
(c) Through the Empress Marie, her mother-in-law.
(d) Through her best friend, Anna Vyrubova.

4. What are Alexandra's own, multiple, medical problems described as?
(a) Hereditary.
(b) Psychosomatic.
(c) Stress-induced.
(d) Allergy-related.

5. How do Nicholas and Alexandra deal with Alexis' medical condition?
(a) They are very open and public about it.
(b) They keep it a secret.
(c) They ignore it.
(d) They don't know about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who NIcholas' parents want him to marry?

2. How much longer does the family stay at Spala, before returning to Tsarskoe Selo, after Alexandra's conversation with Rasputin?

3. What does Russia's government receive on October 30, 1905?

4. Russia's 1905 defeat in the Straits of Tsushima shapes its naval strategy for which future war?

5. In which member of the European royal family does the hemophilia gene first appear as a spontaneous mutation?

(see the answer key)

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