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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. How does Alexandra meet Rasputin?
(a) Through her best friend, Anna Vyrubova.
(b) Through Nicholas.
(c) Through the Empress Marie, her mother-in-law.
(d) Through Alexis' bodyguards.

2. How much does the Imperial Crown of Russia weigh?
(a) Nine kilograms.
(b) Nine pounds.
(c) Nine ounces.
(d) Nine grams.

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

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

5. What happens to Alexandra as a result of the stress she experiences while caring for Alexis during the first eleven days of his injury?
(a) She has a stroke.
(b) She has a nervous breakdown.
(c) Her hair begns to turn gray.
(d) Her hair falls out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Prime Minister Kokovtsov, who replaces Stolypin after his assassination, come to be replaced by Rasputin's ally, Goremykin?

2. Nicholas' father, Alexander III, dies at the family's palace at:

3. In whose carriage does Nicholas' mother, Marie, ride during the coronation ceremony?

4. What is one of the nationalities that is NOT part of the empire over which the Tsar rules?

5. What takes place in 1913 that, by July 1914, involves more than one and one half of Russia's citizens?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the royal yacht, the Standart, strikes a rock during a cruise, why doesn't it sink?

2. Why is Alexandra so severely affected by Alexis' hemophilia?

3. When the Imperial Manifesto of October 30, 1905 establishes an elected parliament and rights for the people, Russia's government changes from an autocracy to what form of government?

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

5. Why do Tsar Alexander and Empress Marie want Nicholas to marry Princess Helene of France instead of Alix of Hesse?

6. What Russian institutions do Peter the Great develop?

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

8. What does Nicholas' tutor, Pobedonostsev, believe the only way to achieve national unity in Russia is? What does he believe is done in the event of opposition?

9. How does Austria's Archduke Ferdinand wind up being assassinated by Serbian revolutionaries, in spite of a route revision after his speech that is designed to keep him out of danger?

10. The Imperial Park at Tsarskoe Selo is the site of which two Russian palaces?

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