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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 percentage of the Russian army are killed, injured or imprisoned by the end of 1914?

2. On what date are the Romanovs murdered?

3. Which of the injuries inflicted upon Rasputin by his assassins is the actual cause of his death?

4. At ___________ on the day they are murdered, the Romanovs are awakened and told to dress because they have to leave quickly.

5. Whom does Nicholas bring to live with him at Stavka in the fall of 1915?

Short Essay Questions

1. After visiting Rasputin for an illness, what conclusion does Felix Yussoupov draw about him?

2. What happens on March 18, 1917, that prompts Alexandra to burn much of her correspondence?

3. Why is Alexis' nurse, Nagorny, arrested after the Romanovs are moved to Ekaterinburg?

4. After initially abdicating the throne to Alexis, why does Nicholas change his mind and turn it over to his brother Michael?

5. Why does Nicholas bring Alexis to live with him at the Stavka in the fall of 1915?

6. In the period immediately following the assassination of Tsar Nicholas and his family, why do as many of his Romanov relatives as are able leave Russia?

7. How are the Romanovs lured to their deaths, and who tells them they were going to die? How long after the announcement of their impending death are the Romanovs killed?

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. To what is the collapse of the Russian monarchy near the end of World War I ultimately attributed?

10. When Alexis suffers a nosebleed and Rasputin is sent for, what does Rasputin do when he arrives and what happens afterward?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and demonstrate how Nicholas' agreement to the Imperial Manifesto and the establishment of the Duma (Russia's Parliament) both enable the revolutionaries and hasten the collapse of the Russian monarchy. Use the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

By using the text as backup and comparing and contrasting Russian Orthodox and Lutheran beliefs, explain why women who marry into the Russian royal family convert to the Russian Orthodox faith, as Alix is required to do from the Lutheran faith in which she is raised.

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