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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Romanovs' approach to publicizing Alexis' Spala injury?

2. What does Russia's government receive on October 30, 1905?

3. How does Prime Minister Kokovtsov, who replaces Stolypin after his assassination, come to be replaced by Rasputin's ally, Goremykin?

4. Why do the Romanovs have two identical royal trains that travel a few miles apart?

5. What happens to Alexandra as a result of the stress she experiences while caring for Alexis during the first eleven days of his injury?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nicholas' tutor, Pobedonostsev, believe the only way to achieve national unity in Russia is? What does he believe is done in the event of opposition?

2. What Russian institutions do Peter the Great develop?

3. After Stolypin and Kokovtsov each have personal interviews with Rasputin when they are in office, what happens to them?

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

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

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

7. How does the Russo-Japanese war end?

8. When World War I begins, the Tsar is reluctant to become involved because Russia is not prepared for war. Why is Russia not prepared for war?

9. During the summer of 1912, while the family is at their hunting lodge in Spala, how does Alexis incur the hemorrhage in his groin and thigh that nearly kills him?

10. When the royal yacht, the Standart, strikes a rock during a cruise, why doesn't it sink?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the narrative's description, in chapter 5, of Nicholas' and Alexandra's attitudes about the coronation day and analyze whether or not these attitudes (Alexandra's in particular) foreshadow how they deal with later problems in their personal as well as political lives. Use the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Using the text and by doing research on the disease as well as using what is learned in class, describe and explain what hemophilia is, why it only occurs in males, and how Queen Victoria is believed to have become a carrier. How does this disease affect the Romanovs' fate?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the views and philosophies of Lenin's Bolsheviks with Plekhanov's Mensheviks, and analyze--using the text as backup--why Lenin and the Bolshevik views prevailed over Plekhanov and the Mensheviks.

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