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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In one word, how is Rasputin's appearance described?
(a) Metrosexual.
(b) Unkept.
(c) Outdoorsy.
(d) Dapper.

3. In addition to all the official ceremonies, what else do the Romanovs do to celebrate Russia's tercentenary?
(a) They make a pilgrimage to trace the route of the first Tsar.
(b) They make a cross-country public relations trip.
(c) They make a pilgrimage to Constantinople, the seat of Orthodoxy.
(d) They make a public relations trip through every country in Europe.

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

5. Why do the older two daughters not make their public debut in 1914?
(a) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) World War I.
(c) Alexis' hemophilia.
(d) Queen Victoria's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position in Russia's government does Plehve hold?

2. What does the jeweler Faberge make every Easter for Nicholas' wife and mother?

3. When Austria presents an ultimatum to Serbia, what is Serbia's first reaction?

4. What happens to the two older girls instead of their debut?

5. Why does Russia negotiate a ninety-nine-year lease with China on Port Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

1. When World War I begins, the Tsar is reluctant to become involved because Russia is not prepared for war. Why is Russia not prepared for war?

2. How does Rasputin believe that people came to be forgiven of their sins?

3. When Alexis injures himself at Spala, who comes from St. Petersburg to help him?

4. During the summer of 1912, while the family is at their hunting lodge in Spala, how does Alexis incur the hemorrhage in his groin and thigh that nearly kills him?

5. Why do Russian Easter celebrations include large banquets?

6. What do the old women in the crowd observing Alexander III's funeral procession say of Alexandra, who rides alone and behind the rest of the family?

7. Catherine the Great is German, not Russian. How does she become Empress of Russia?

8. What begins to appear in public after Iliodor and his supporters are sent into seclusion?

9. What Russian institutions do Peter the Great develop?

10. When the First Imperial Duma appears in May 1906, what political parties form along with it?

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