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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Alans?
(a) Peaceful agriculturalists.
(b) Traveling merchants.
(c) The greatest of the Sarmatian tribes.
(d) The least successful of the Sarmatian tribes.

2. Who attacks Ivan's convoy?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Syrians.
(c) Cumins.
(d) Persians.

3. Where do the Russians march against?
(a) Lithuania.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Novgorod.
(d) Kiev.

4. What does Stephen change for the priests' sake?
(a) His language.
(b) How much money he contributes to the peasants.
(c) His religion.
(d) Some icons.

5. What problem is Boris confronting in Chapter 5?
(a) He does not have enough money.
(b) He is besieged.
(c) He is falling ill.
(d) His children will not obey him.

6. What does Ivan do in 1564?
(a) Change religion.
(b) Step down from the throne.
(c) Divide his estate.
(d) Go to war.

7. What village is at the heart of the novel?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Russka.
(d) Minsk.

8. What is Boris' only option?
(a) Sending his children away.
(b) Fleeing his region.
(c) Allying himself with a former enemy.
(d) Raising taxes on his peasants.

9. What is the result when Monomakh refuses the throne?
(a) A period of peace.
(b) A revolution.
(c) Cooperation between tribes.
(d) Civil war.

10. What do the Cossacks get in 1649?
(a) Annihilated.
(b) Independence.
(c) A territory within Poland.
(d) Conquered.

11. What is the state of the Mongols in 1237?
(a) United under Genghis Khan.
(b) Fragmented by regional divisions.
(c) Seething with tribal politics.
(d) Civil war.

12. What does the leader tell the Alans?
(a) That they will not take Kiy.
(b) That they will take Kiy with them.
(c) That they will not attack Lebed's village.
(d) That they will not fight for Rome.

13. What commonwealth was this region preparing to join, before the Russians marched against it?
(a) Poland.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Ukraine.
(d) Lithuania.

14. Whose army is Mengu traveling with?
(a) Monomakh's.
(b) Prince Vladimir's.
(c) Genghis Khan's.
(d) Sviatopolk's.

15. Who brings Kiy back to his mother?
(a) The Alan whose children were all lost in battle.
(b) The Alans' leader.
(c) The Alan who recently lost a son.
(d) The Alan with the missing hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mengu?

2. Who finds Ivan?

3. Whose arrival is Milei waiting for in 1262?

4. How does Stenka Razin die?

5. What does the revolt make Ivan nervous about?

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