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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. Nicholas is especially weak in ___________ affairs.
2. What does Rasputin do as a child that earns him a reputation as a seer?
3. What type of economy does Russia have in 1906, when Peter Stolypin becomes prime minister of Russia?
4. What happens to the two older girls instead of their debut?
5. Taxes on the sale of vodka contribute to the government _______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. After Stolypin and Kokovtsov each have personal interviews with Rasputin when they are in office, what happens to them?
3. Why do Russian Easter celebrations include large banquets?
4. Why do Tsar Alexander and Empress Marie want Nicholas to marry Princess Helene of France instead of Alix of Hesse?
5. How do Lenin's studies at the University of Kazan end?
6. What begins to appear in public after Iliodor and his supporters are sent into seclusion?
7. How does the Russo-Japanese war end?
8. Why do many in St. Petersburg society consider Alexandra a prude?
9. When the royal yacht, the Standart, strikes a rock during a cruise, why doesn't it sink?
10. On what pretext does Nicholas dissolve the Second Imperial Duma?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and explain how Nicholas and Alexandra's decision to keep Alexis' hemophilia a secret contributed to not only Alexandra's unpopularity with Russians but also to the downfall of the monarchy. Back up your arguments with citations from the text.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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