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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Suvorin offer Ivan Romanov?
(a) A marriage opportunity.
(b) A business partnership.
(c) A military commission.
(d) A political appointment.

2. How does Pinegin get revenge on Sergei?
(a) By killing his brother.
(b) By seducing Nadia.
(c) By framing him for a crime.
(d) By leaving Russia.

3. What is the marriage between Alexander and Tatiana like at first?
(a) Awkward.
(b) Violent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Rocky.

4. Who is making slow progress according to Peter?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Anarchists.
(c) Terrorists.
(d) Capitalists.

5. Who does Alexander see visit the Suvorin house?
(a) Karpenko.
(b) Sergei.
(c) Popov.
(d) Rosa Abramovich.

6. What happens in the duel between Sergei and Pinegin?
(a) Sergei is injured.
(b) Neither man is injured.
(c) Pinegin is killed.
(d) Sergei is killed.

7. What does Nicolai find when he reaches the country?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Plague.
(c) War.
(d) Food shortages.

8. How long has Nicolai been in St. Petersburg in 1891?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) His whole life.
(d) 1 year.

9. What is Procopy present for?
(a) Voting on rights for the peasantry.
(b) The debate over whether the Tsar should submit to the church.
(c) Interrogations of mutinous soldiers.
(d) Executions of captive soldiers.

10. Where does Sergei work after school?
(a) The central administration.
(b) The military.
(c) The foreign ministry.
(d) A law firm.

11. Who is Vladimir Suvorin?
(a) A worker.
(b) A serf.
(c) A wealthy factory owner.
(d) A revolutionary.

12. How does Rosa Abramovich die?
(a) She is trampled in a riot.
(b) She is hit by a tram.
(c) She falls ill with cholera.
(d) She is hit by a stray bullet.

13. What deadline does the Countess give Alexander?
(a) To impose reforms.
(b) To Russianize the South.
(c) To graduate from school.
(d) To marry Tatiana.

14. Why has Nicolai's father asked him to return home?
(a) To help with failing crops.
(b) To help him in his illness.
(c) To stop his political activities.
(d) To take over the estate.

15. What was the Decembrist conspiracy?
(a) A separatist plot.
(b) A financial conspiracy.
(c) An assassination plot.
(d) A failed revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Suvorin's response to Ivan Romanov?

2. What is Alexander's response to Tatiana's pregnancy?

3. Where does Sergei attend school?

4. Where is Andrei traveling to in 1703?

5. What does Alexander refuse to ask Tatiana's father for?

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