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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 happens to the Bishop of St. Petersburg when he tries to investigate Rasputin's immoral behavior?
(a) He finds himself the new Bishop of Crimea.
(b) He is assassinated.
(c) He is defrocked and excommunicated.
(d) He finds himself the new Bishop of Siberia.

2. Russia has to limit the amount of _____________ their soldiers use in one day because of shortages.
(a) Vodka.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Ammunition.

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

4. Taxes on the sale of vodka contribute to the government _______________.
(a) Deficit.
(b) Profits.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Revenues.

5. Where are the Romanovs when Austria's Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?
(a) Vacationing at Livadia.
(b) Vacationing in the Crimean mountains.
(c) Sailing on the Standart.
(d) Hunting in Spala.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nicholas' most important tutor?

2. Where do the girls live?

3. Which Russian Prime Ministers does Alexandra send Rasputin to meet with?

4. What is Russia's response to the Austrian shelling of Serbia?

5. What Russian city is the hometown of Vladimir Lenin?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What outdoor activities does Alexis want to engage in but can not due to his hemophilia?

3. Why do Russian Easter celebrations include large banquets?

4. In the Russian system of autocracy, to whom is the Tsar responsible?

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

6. How does the Russo-Japanese war end?

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

8. With which religious, sexually immoral, sect is Rasputin accused of having an association?

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

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