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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who NIcholas' parents want him to marry?
(a) Princess Helene of Paris.
(b) Princess Alix of Hesse.
(c) Princess Ella of Hesse.
(d) Princess Victoria of England.

2. What is the name of the first Romanov Tsar?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Peter.
(c) Nicholas.
(d) Michael.

3. What are the names of Alexis' bodyguards?
(a) Lenin and Trotsky.
(b) Anatevka and Datsyuk.
(c) Derevenko and Nagorny.
(d) Nureyev and Nijinsky.

4. What kind of life do the Tsar's children lead?
(a) Average.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) Poverty-stricken.
(d) Spartan.

5. What happens to the Bishop of St. Petersburg when he tries to investigate Rasputin's immoral behavior?
(a) He is assassinated.
(b) He finds himself the new Bishop of Siberia.
(c) He is defrocked and excommunicated.
(d) He finds himself the new Bishop of Crimea.

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

7. Nicholas and Alexandra's first home is at the palace in:
(a) Livadia.
(b) Tsarskoe Selo.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Anitchkov.

8. What does Stolypin do away with?
(a) Communal farming.
(b) Private property.
(c) The monarchy.
(d) The peasantry.

9. When Serbia replies to Austria's ultimatum, what happens?
(a) Austria accepts Serbia's reply but begins shelling Serbia anyway.
(b) Austria sends a counter-offer to Serbia and begins shelling Serbia.
(c) Austria begins shelling Serbia.
(d) Austria rejects Serbia's reply and begins shelling Serbia.

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

11. Russia has to limit the amount of _____________ their soldiers use in one day because of shortages.
(a) Vodka.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Food.
(d) Water.

12. What is the name given to Lenin's group of revolutionaries?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Mensheviks.
(c) Marxists.
(d) Communists.

13. What German author's writings influence Lenin?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Friederich Nietzsche.
(c) Heinrich Heine.
(d) Adolf Hitler.

14. After an attempt by his organization to give a petition to the Tsar failed, what happens to Father Gapon?
(a) He is arrested.
(b) He leaves the priesthood.
(c) He becomes a revolutionary.
(d) He is assassinated.

15. The Tsar is the ruler of which country?
(a) Russia.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Serbia.
(d) The Soviet Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rasputin do as a child that earns him a reputation as a seer?

2. How does Alexandra meet Rasputin?

3. What is Russia's response to the Austrian shelling of Serbia?

4. In what month and year is Nicholas II crowned Tsar?

5. When the Duma arrives for the tercentenary celebration and finds Rasputin sitting in one of their chairs, what does the president of the Duma do?

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