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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. As Nicholas returns to Petrograd, why is the train detoured to Pskov?
(a) A fallen tree is ahead on the tracks.
(b) Another train is derailed ahead on the tracks.
(c) A rock slide is ahead on the tracks.
(d) Revolutionary troops are ahead on the tracks.

2. Who works out a truce to keep the Alexander Palace from being attacked by the revolutionaries?
(a) The Tsar.
(b) The military.
(c) The Church.
(d) The Duma.

3. How long does it take for the Bolsheviks to admit that the family is killed along with the Tsar?
(a) A month.
(b) Ten years.
(c) A week.
(d) A year.

4. Why do the Russians turn away from Vienna and Budapest just as they are about to take them over?
(a) To assist the French against the Germans.
(b) To fight against the revolutionaries in their own country.
(c) They run out of food.
(d) They run out of ammunition.

5. Rasputin's murderers are viewed as ___________ in Petrograd.
(a) Revolutionaries.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Traitors.
(d) Heroes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rasputin always tells Alexandra that Alexis loses the crown and Alexandra dies if ______________ dies.

3. While Alexis is traveling during the fall of 1915, he suffers a nosebleed. His mother credits Rasputin with stopping the bleeding; however, what is the most likely reason the hemorrhage stops?

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

5. By what criteria does Rasputin judge people?

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. What happens on March 18, 1917, that prompts Alexandra to burn much of her correspondence?

3. In the letter that turns out to prophesy his death as well as the fate of the monarchy, what does Rasputin say happens to the Romanovs if his death is at the hands of peasants or commoners? Likewise, what does he say happens to the monarchy if his death is at the hands of nobles?

4. After initially abdicating the throne to Alexis, why does Nicholas change his mind and turn it over to his brother Michael?

5. After visiting Rasputin for an illness, what conclusion does Felix Yussoupov draw about him?

6. In the period immediately following the assassination of Tsar Nicholas and his family, why do as many of his Romanov relatives as are able leave Russia?

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

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

9. To what is the collapse of the Russian monarchy near the end of World War I ultimately attributed?

10. What secret information is found in Alexandra's papers after the abdication? Who is authorized to have copies of this information?

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