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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To the peasants in the countryside, the death of the peasant Rasputin makes him a _____________.
(a) Saint.
(b) Martyr.
(c) Fool.
(d) Peasant.

2. No one can ever convince Alexandra that Rasputin is:
(a) A charlatan.
(b) Bad news.
(c) Evil.
(d) Manipulative.

3. The Provisional Government sends a request to England for _____________ for Nicholas and his family.
(a) Asylum.
(b) Food and clothing.
(c) Psychiatric help.
(d) Medical treatment.

4. In November, after the Bolsheviks take key positions in Petrograd and Kerensky goes into hiding, with him go the dream of a _________ Russia.
(a) Parliamentarian.
(b) Republican.
(c) Monarchist.
(d) Democratic.

5. Who arrests Alexandra on March 21, 1917?
(a) General Kornilov.
(b) Captain Kotzebue.
(c) Captain Kornilov.
(d) General Kotzebue.

6. What happens five days after the Tsar relinquishes control of the government?
(a) Revolutionaries storm Tsarskoe Selo.
(b) The government collapses.
(c) Alexis hemorrhages.
(d) The entire Romanov family is assassinated.

7. At ___________ on the day they are murdered, the Romanovs are awakened and told to dress because they have to leave quickly.
(a) Noon.
(b) Two A.M.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Midnight.

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

9. By the summer of 1915, the Tsar is at the front, but is in actuality a figurehead. Who is actually in charge of the army?
(a) Grand Duke Nicholas.
(b) Prime Minister Stolypin.
(c) Empress Alexandra.
(d) Michael Vasilevich Alexeiev.

10. After Lenin and Trotsky return to Russia, where does Kerensky decide to relocate the Romanovs to?
(a) Ekaterinburg.
(b) Tobolsk, in western Siberia.
(c) The Crimea.
(d) Moscow.

11. What is the date by which Rasputin, writing before his death, predicts he will be dead and which, indeed, turns out to be the day his body is found?
(a) January 1, 1916.
(b) January 11, 1916.
(c) January 1, 1917.
(d) January 11, 1917.

12. The plan is for Nicholas and Alexandra to travel to _____________ and then to ____________ once the children are well.
(a) Moscow; Ekaterinburg.
(b) Murmansk; Moscow.
(c) Murmansk; England.
(d) England; Murmansk.

13. Whom does Nicholas bring to live with him at Stavka in the fall of 1915?
(a) Alexis.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Olga.
(d) Anna Vyrubova.

14. While Alexis is traveling during the fall of 1915, he suffers a nosebleed. His mother credits Rasputin with stopping the bleeding; however, what is the most likely reason the hemorrhage stops?
(a) The bleeding stops naturally on its own.
(b) Rasputin miraculously heals Alexis.
(c) Alexis bleeds to death.
(d) Doctors cauterize the broken vessel.

15. What does Nicholas need in order to go outside of the palace after he and Alexandra are arrested?
(a) A police escort.
(b) Advance permission.
(c) A military escort.
(d) Keys.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Trotsky returns to Russia from New York in May 1917, what is his relationship with Lenin?

2. When Nicholas leaves Tsarskoe Selo, Alexandra takes on the ___________ functions of government in Petrograd.

3. In March 1917, what illness do three of the Romanov children, plus Anna Vyrubova, have?

4. There are still __________ loyal to the Tsar at Alexander Palace.

5. Of the twenty-eight people tried for the murder of the Tsar, how many are executed?

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