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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. Rasputin always tells Alexandra that Alexis loses the crown and Alexandra dies if ______________ dies.
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Nicholas.
(c) Alexis.
(d) Rasputin.

2. When Rodzianko finally convinces Nicholas, who is still at Stavka, that the violence and strike in Petrograd are serious, what does he NOT do?
(a) Dissolve the Duma.
(b) Send troops from the front into the city to restore order.
(c) Send his family out of the city for their safety.
(d) Make plans to return to Petrograd.

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?
(a) Doctors cauterize the broken vessel.
(b) Alexis bleeds to death.
(c) Rasputin miraculously heals Alexis.
(d) The bleeding stops naturally on its own.

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

5. Nicholas thinks he is taken to ______________ and is forced to sign the peace treaty with Germany.
(a) Petrograd.
(b) Ekaterinburg.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people live together in the five-room upper level given to the Romanovs?

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

3. Where is Stavka, the field headquarters, located?

4. By the summer of 1915, the Tsar is at the front, but is in actuality a figurehead. Who is actually in charge of the army?

5. Lenin is living in _____________ when the revolution occurs in Petrograd.

Short Essay Questions

1. When Colonel Kobylinsky is placed in charge of the Romanovs, how does the way in which they are treated change?

2. When strikers marched in the streets on Sunday, March 11, 1917, they find that signs are posted by order of the Tsar. What do the signs say?

3. Under the 'protection' of Captain Kotzebue's revolutionaries, how are the Romanovs treated at first?

4. When are the Romanovs told they are able to leave Siberia?

5. What happens to all of the money that is sent to Siberia to help the Romanovs?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. In the period between Nicholas' abdication and the Romanovs' arrest, why do the revolutionaries not attack the Alexander Palace, where the family is living?

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