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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 beneficial effect does Alexandra believe Rasputin has on Alexis?
(a) She believes Rasputin keeps him calm.
(b) She believes Rasputin heals him.
(c) She believes Rasputin makes him holy.
(d) She believes Rasputin protects him from injury.

2. Why does the royal trains stop wherever there is a cool spot or water available?
(a) Because travel is cold and damp.
(b) Because travel is hot and stuffy.
(c) Because the trains overheat often.
(d) Because there is no water on the trains.

3. What position in Russia's government does Plehve hold?
(a) Foreign Minister.
(b) Minister of the Interior.
(c) Prime Minister.
(d) Minister of Labor.

4. In what month and year is Nicholas II crowned Tsar?
(a) May 1896.
(b) January 1896.
(c) May 1895.
(d) January 1895.

5. What does Rasputin do when Stolypin banishes him?
(a) He goes on a trip to Japan.
(b) He goes on a trip to Jerusalem.
(c) He goes on a trip to Palestine.
(d) He goes on a trip to the United States.

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

3. In addition to all the official ceremonies, what else do the Romanovs do to celebrate Russia's tercentenary?

4. Where do the girls live?

5. Where are the Romanovs when Austria's Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?

Short Essay Questions

1. When World War I begins, why do Nicholas and Alexandra travel to Moscow?

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

3. Why does a riot that kills hundreds of people take place in Moscow, and at what event, on the day following Nicholas' coronation?

4. How do Lenin's studies at the University of Kazan end?

5. After Stolypin and Kokovtsov each have personal interviews with Rasputin when they are in office, what happens to them?

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. 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?

8. How does the Russo-Japanese war end?

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

10. On what pretext does Nicholas dissolve the Second Imperial Duma?

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