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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. When the provisional government is established after the fall of the monarchy, who is elected Vice-Chairman of the Soviet and Minister of Justice?
2. Who is responsible for the Romanovs' safety when they are first arrested in March 1917?
3. The Provisional Government sends a request to England for _____________ for Nicholas and his family.
4. What is the date by which Rasputin, writing before his death, predicts he will be dead and which, indeed, turns out to be the day his body is found?
5. When Lenin returns to Petrograd in April 1917, he calls for the ___________ of the Provisional Government.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are losses so heavy among Russian officers, in particular, during World War I?
2. At the Four Brothers Mine, how are the bodies of Nicholas and his family disposed of?
3. Why is Alexis' nurse, Nagorny, arrested after the Romanovs are moved to Ekaterinburg?
4. What do Rasputin's murderers believe is the outcome of his death?
5. Under what conditions does England agree to grant the Romanovs asylum, and why is the request eventually withdrawn?
6. Why does Alexandra move Anna Vyrubova into an apartment in the Alexander Palace?
7. When the Romanovs arrived in Tyumen, in what condition does Kobylinsky find the Governor's house, where the Romanovs are to live?
8. When Alexis suffers a nosebleed and Rasputin is sent for, what does Rasputin do when he arrives and what happens afterward?
9. Why does Nicholas bring Alexis to live with him at the Stavka in the fall of 1915?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using the text, analyze and demonstrate whether or not Russia's becoming a constitutional monarchy in October 1905 strengthens the revolutionaries and enable the ultimate collapse of the monarchy at their hands.
Essay Topic 2
Explain and analyze why, although there are people who want, and indeed try, to help the Romanovs escape, nothing ever comes to fruition. Use the text as backup.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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