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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 is the name given to Lenin's group of revolutionaries?
(a) Marxists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Bolsheviks.
(d) Mensheviks.

2. 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) Her hair begns to turn gray.
(b) She has a stroke.
(c) Her hair falls out.
(d) She has a nervous breakdown.

3. What does Rasputin believe about sin?
(a) He believes that sin leads to depravity.
(b) He believes that sin doesn't exist.
(c) He believes that sin leads to punishment.
(d) He believes that sin leads to holiness.

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

5. Nicholas presents his fiancee with jewels designed by:
(a) Faberge.
(b) Tiffany.
(c) Rolex.
(d) Cartier.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date is Alexis, the male heir to the throne of Russia, born?

2. Which option lists the names of Nicholas and Alexandra's daughters in order of their birth?

3. After an attempt by his organization to give a petition to the Tsar failed, what happens to Father Gapon?

4. What beneficial effect does Alexandra believe Rasputin has on Alexis?

5. Alexis' illness _________ alter the household routine.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. What Russian institutions do Peter the Great develop?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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