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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. To the peasants in the countryside, the death of the peasant Rasputin makes him a _____________.
2. Of the twenty-eight people tried for the murder of the Tsar, how many are executed?
3. Whom does Nicholas bring to live with him at Stavka in the fall of 1915?
4. How does the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty end in March, 1917?
5. What happens on March 21, 1917?
Short Essay Questions
1. During the sixteen months Nicholas is at either Stavka or the front, Alexandra is in charge of the administrative functions of the government. What is the result of Alexandra's leadership?
2. What happens to all of the money that is sent to Siberia to help the Romanovs?
3. When the Romanovs arrived in Tyumen, in what condition does Kobylinsky find the Governor's house, where the Romanovs are to live?
4. When Colonel Kobylinsky is placed in charge of the Romanovs, how does the way in which they are treated change?
5. Under the 'protection' of Captain Kotzebue's revolutionaries, how are the Romanovs treated at first?
6. After the revolution, 630 letters from Alexandra to Nicholas, written while Nicholas is at the Stavka, are found in Ekaterinburg. What do the letters contain?
7. In agreeing to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, what territory does Russia give up?
8. To what is the collapse of the Russian monarchy near the end of World War I ultimately attributed?
9. In the period between Nicholas' abdication and the Romanovs' arrest, why do the revolutionaries not attack the Alexander Palace, where the family is living?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using the text as backup, compare and contrast the daily routine of the Romanovs, as described in Chapter 10, with the daily life of the typical Russian worker.
Essay Topic 2
Using the text, explain and analyze how Alexandra's belief that Rasputin is a representative from God who miraculously heals her son enables Rasputin to take advantage of her, as well as Alexis' hemophilia, in order to gain influence in and, eventually, control over Russia's government.
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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