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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do the girls live?
(a) Above their father's bedroom at Tsarskoe Selo.
(b) Above their mother's bedroom at Livadia.
(c) Above their father's bedroom at Livadia.
(d) Above their mother's bedroom at Tsarskoe Selo.

3. What takes place in 1913 that, by July 1914, involves more than one and one half of Russia's citizens?
(a) A nationwide strike.
(b) A religious awakening.
(c) A political movement.
(d) A plague.

4. Why does Alexandra think that people hate Rasputin?
(a) Because he is more powerful than they were.
(b) Because people don't understand him.
(c) Because he is accepted by the Romanovs.
(d) Because he has luck with the women.

5. How does Prime Minister Kokovtsov, who replaces Stolypin after his assassination, come to be replaced by Rasputin's ally, Goremykin?
(a) Kokovtsov steps down voluntarily.
(b) Kokovtsov dies in office of a massive heart attack.
(c) Rasputin pressures Nicholas to remove Kokovtsov.
(d) A revolutionary assassinates Kokovtsov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Alexis' bodyguards?

2. As a "starets" or man of God, what is Rasputin specifically considered to be?

3. What church is the main Christian influence in Nicholas' country?

4. Nicholas' father, Alexander III, dies at the family's palace at:

5. What faith does Nicholas' fiancee have to convert to in order to marry him?

(see the answer key)

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