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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the rest of Petrograd believe about Rasputin's motives for his continued involvement with the Romanovs?
(a) They assume he is a paid Serbian spy.
(b) They assume he is a paid German spy.
(c) They assume he is an undercover revolutionary.
(d) They assume he is a paid Austrian spy.

2. What percentage of the Russian army are killed, injured or imprisoned by the end of 1914?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seventy-five.

3. Who works out a truce to keep the Alexander Palace from being attacked by the revolutionaries?
(a) The Duma.
(b) The Tsar.
(c) The Church.
(d) The military.

4. How do the Romanovs travel for most of the journey to Siberia?
(a) Horse and carriage.
(b) Luxury train.
(c) Horseback.
(d) Regular passenger train.

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

6. Rasputin's murderers are viewed as ___________ in Petrograd.
(a) Traitors.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Revolutionaries.
(d) Murderers.

7. What is the name of the treaty that brings peace between Russia and Germany in the spring of 1918?
(a) Versailles.
(b) Litovsk-Breast.
(c) Breast-Litovsk.
(d) Brest-Litovsk.

8. After being warned that revolution is imminent, to whom does Tsar Nicholas give control?
(a) Alexis, with a regent.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Alexis.
(d) A regent.

9. The Tobolsk population is loyal to the:
(a) Tsar.
(b) Germans.
(c) Bolsheviks.
(d) Revolutionaries.

10. On the day they are murdered, what is the reason the Romanovs are given for having to leave?
(a) The Monarchists are approaching Ekaterinburg.
(b) The Revolutionaries are approaching Ekaterinburg.
(c) The White Russians are approaching Ekaterinburg.
(d) The Red Russians are approaching Ekaterinburg.

11. Rasputin always tells Alexandra that Alexis loses the crown and Alexandra dies if ______________ dies.
(a) Nicholas.
(b) Alexis.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Queen Victoria.

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

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

14. On March 12, 1917, whom does Alexandra ask to come to her?
(a) Her sister, Ella.
(b) Her friend, Lili Dehn.
(c) Nicholas' brother, Michael.
(d) Nicholas' mother, Marie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Grand Duke Michael, Nicholas's brother, tries to bring the royal family to Moscow for what reason?

2. How many people live together in the five-room upper level given to the Romanovs?

3. The plan is for Nicholas and Alexandra to travel to _____________ and then to ____________ once the children are well.

4. Where is Stavka, the field headquarters, located?

5. Why are the Romanovs not willing to escape, even though monarchist organizations triesd to help them?

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