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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. After being warned that revolution is imminent, to whom does Tsar Nicholas give control?
(a) Alexis, with a regent.
(b) A regent.
(c) Alexandra.
(d) Alexis.

2. What is the house in Ekaterinburg where the Romanovs live called?
(a) The House of Special Dispensation.
(b) The House of Nicholas.
(c) The House of Romanov.
(d) The House of Special Purposes.

3. What is the name of the mine to which the bodies of the Romanovs are taken?
(a) The Four Comrades.
(b) The Four Uncles.
(c) The Four Brothers.
(d) The Four Bears.

4. What does Nicholas need in order to go outside of the palace after he and Alexandra are arrested?
(a) Advance permission.
(b) Keys.
(c) A military escort.
(d) A police escort.

5. In November, after the Bolsheviks take key positions in Petrograd and Kerensky goes into hiding, with him go the dream of a _________ Russia.
(a) Republican.
(b) Monarchist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Parliamentarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the Russian army is destroyed by the summer of 1915?

2. At one point, a drunken Rasputin is arrested for:

3. With the Tsar at the front, a substitute autocrat is to be found. Who fills this role?

4. When Nicholas leaves Tsarskoe Selo, Alexandra takes on the ___________ functions of government in Petrograd.

5. Which river is Rasputin thrown into by his would-be assassins?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Romanovs arrived in Tyumen, in what condition does Kobylinsky find the Governor's house, where the Romanovs are to live?

2. Why is Alexis' nurse, Nagorny, arrested after the Romanovs are moved to Ekaterinburg?

3. How are the Romanovs lured to their deaths, and who tells them they were going to die? How long after the announcement of their impending death are the Romanovs killed?

4. In agreeing to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, what territory does Russia give up?

5. Why are losses so heavy among Russian officers, in particular, during World War I?

6. Under what conditions does England agree to grant the Romanovs asylum, and why is the request eventually withdrawn?

7. Why does Alexandra move Anna Vyrubova into an apartment in the Alexander Palace?

8. Why does Nicholas bring Alexis to live with him at the Stavka in the fall of 1915?

9. What does the Tsar do in an attempt to slow down the rate of loss among his army officers?

10. After the revolution, 630 letters from Alexandra to Nicholas, written while Nicholas is at the Stavka, are found in Ekaterinburg. What do the letters contain?

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