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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under Russian law, what is Kerensky's call for removal of the Tsar?
(a) Sedition.
(b) Inciting a riot.
(c) Slander of a public official.
(d) Treason.

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

3. What does Rasputin want?
(a) To rule Russia.
(b) To be popular.
(c) To marry Alexandra.
(d) To be left alone.

4. When the provisional government is established after the fall of the monarchy, who is elected Vice-Chairman of the Soviet and Minister of Justice?
(a) Protopopov.
(b) Yussupov.
(c) Rodzianko.
(d) Kerensky.

5. Who are Pankratov and Nikolsky loyal to?
(a) The Tsar.
(b) The revolutionaries.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) No one; they were mercenaries.

6. Who is misinforming Nicholas as to how serious things are in Petrograd?
(a) Rodzianko.
(b) Protopopov.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Kerensky.

7. With the Tsar at the front, a substitute autocrat is to be found. Who fills this role?
(a) Rasputin, accompanied by the Empress Alexandra.
(b) The Empress Alexandra.
(c) The Empress Alexandra, accompanied by Rasputin.
(d) Rasputin.

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

9. When Rodzianko finally convinces Nicholas, who is still at Stavka, that the violence and strike in Petrograd are serious, what does he NOT do?
(a) Dissolve the Duma.
(b) Make plans to return to Petrograd.
(c) Send troops from the front into the city to restore order.
(d) Send his family out of the city for their safety.

10. As Nicholas returns to Petrograd, why is the train detoured to Pskov?
(a) Another train is derailed ahead on the tracks.
(b) A fallen tree is ahead on the tracks.
(c) A rock slide is ahead on the tracks.
(d) Revolutionary troops are ahead on the tracks.

11. Where is Stavka, the field headquarters, located?
(a) On the German border.
(b) In Ekaterinburg.
(c) Twenty miles from Petrograd.
(d) Along the Polish railway.

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

13. In which city does the first Russian revolution take place?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Petrograd.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Moscow.

14. When Guchkov and Shulgan arrive to confer with Nicholas, to whom does he abdicate his throne in favor of?
(a) His wife Alexandra.
(b) The revolutionaries.
(c) His son Alexis.
(d) His brother Michael.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take Yurovsky's group to destroy the bodies?

2. What does Nicholas need in order to go outside of the palace after he and Alexandra are arrested?

3. Which Rasputin ally is appointed as Vice-President of the Duma in October 1916?

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

5. What is the house in Ekaterinburg where the Romanovs live called?

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