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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Yanka go to live with Purgas?
(a) Scandinavia.
(b) The Ukraine.
(c) The Black Lands.
(d) The Steppe.

2. Who is Mengu?
(a) A Russian prince.
(b) A Cumin warrior.
(c) A Mongol warrior.
(d) A slave.

3. Who does Andrei stay with on his travels?
(a) Tsar Alexis.
(b) Nikon.
(c) Nikita.
(d) Stenka Razin.

4. What question does Boris wonder about when he returns from the campaign?
(a) How to limit the power of the Tsar.
(b) How he will raise revenues on his estate.
(c) Whether Elena's son is his.
(d) How to get a promotion in the Tsar's service.

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

6. What happens while Boris is away on the campaign?
(a) The Tsar takes his land.
(b) His son dies.
(c) Elena gives birth to a son.
(d) Stephen is killed.

7. What is the veche?
(a) The police.
(b) The marketplace.
(c) The borderland.
(d) An assembly.

8. Who is Arina?
(a) Elena's daughter.
(b) Anna's daughter.
(c) Maryushka's daughter.
(d) Maryushka's sister.

9. Who had killed Yanka's mother?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Turks.
(c) The Cumins.
(d) The Tatars.

10. Who is Yanka?
(a) A daughter of Mengu.
(b) Batu Khan's daughter.
(c) Milei's sister.
(d) A descendent of Shchek.

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

12. What does Sviatopolk try to do?
(a) Seize power from his father.
(b) Marry Emma.
(c) Run away.
(d) Kill Ivan.

13. Who revolts in 1067?
(a) The Prince of Polotsk.
(b) Shchek.
(c) The Prince of Vsevolod.
(d) The Prince of Kiev.

14. Who is Stanislaus?
(a) A Russian warrior.
(b) A Russian general.
(c) A Polish official.
(d) A Ukrainian diplomat.

15. What happens to Sviatopolk after Monomakh refuses the throne?
(a) He flees the territory.
(b) He is killed.
(c) He kills Ivan.
(d) He seizes power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Alans?

2. What does Stephen change for the priests' sake?

3. What does Ivan do when his journey is interrupted?

4. Where do the Russians march against?

5. What causes the Boyar to have pains in his chest and feet when he leaves the house?

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