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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are peasants leaving Boris' estate?
(a) The religious persecution.
(b) The famine.
(c) The wars.
(d) The heavy taxes.

2. What causes the Boyar to have pains in his chest and feet when he leaves the house?
(a) Wounds from a battle he fought.
(b) He is old and dying.
(c) Yanka buried Peter's head near his door.
(d) A spell cast by an enemy.

3. What does Ivan do when his journey is interrupted?
(a) Returns home.
(b) Turns to gambling and stealing.
(c) Enters a monastery.
(d) Hides until he could continue.

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

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

6. When did Patriarch Nikon's reforms begin?
(a) 1644.
(b) 1653.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1649.

7. Who is the monastery dedicated to that is built on land Melei gives to the priest?
(a) John.
(b) Mary.
(c) Luke.
(d) Peter and Paul.

8. Whose arrival is Milei waiting for in 1262?
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Mengu.
(c) Yanka.
(d) Peter the Tatar.

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

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

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

12. What is the Russian government like in 1662?
(a) Chaos.
(b) A dispersed confederation of tribes.
(c) A strong central government.
(d) A loose series of alliances.

13. Where are the Tatars in 1262?
(a) The northeast part of Rus.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) China.

14. When does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) 1917. AD.
(b) 1066 AD.
(c) 180 AD.
(d) 1520 AD.

15. Where does Andrei follow Maryushka and her husband?
(a) Novgorod.
(b) Russka.
(c) Kiev.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Boris says that one of the monks is guilty of heresy?

2. What problem is Boris confronting in Chapter 5?

3. Who is elected elder of Dirty Place?

4. What is the capital of Russia in Chapter 2?

5. What has Ivan's father arranged for him?

(see the answer keys)

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