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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alexander's response to Tatiana's pregnancy?
(a) He raises the child as his own.
(b) He gives it away.
(c) He kills the child as a bastard.
(d) He forces her to abort it.

2. What was Daniel accused of?
(a) Heresy.
(b) Murder.
(c) Opposing the Tsar.
(d) Stealing.

3. What bothers Alexander about Mrs. Suvorin?
(a) Her daughter's behavior.
(b) Her demanding nature.
(c) Her sympathy for revolutionaries.
(d) Her relationship with Popov.

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

5. Where is Andrei traveling to in 1703?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Kiev.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Poland.

6. What does Vladimir Suvorin bring from the south?
(a) Money.
(b) Grain.
(c) Arms.
(d) Political subversion.

7. Who is Ivan Mazeppa?
(a) The ruler of the left bank.
(b) A Cossack.
(c) A merchant.
(d) The Tsar's agent in Andrei's region.

8. What was Sergei's sentence?
(a) Five years of hard labor.
(b) One year of imprisonment.
(c) Execution.
(d) Three years of exile.

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

10. Who is Count Benckendorft?
(a) An officer of the Third Department.
(b) A military office.
(c) A reformer.
(d) An agent provocateur.

11. Who is Arina?
(a) Misha's daughter.
(b) A girl Popov goes out with.
(c) Peter Suvorin's sister.
(d) Nicolai's wife.

12. Who does Nicolai find on the train to Moscow?
(a) Arina Romanov.
(b) Vladimir Suvorin.
(c) His father.
(d) Yvgeney Popov.

13. What are the Rosicrucians dedicated to?
(a) Westernization.
(b) Extending technical innovations.
(c) Protecting the old order.
(d) A new order.

14. What happens to the streltsy?
(a) It becomes the basis for the Tsar's edicts.
(b) It centralizes the government.
(c) It becomes the foundation for the Tsar's power.
(d) Is it crushed. It brings about reforms.

15. Who is Vladimir Ilych Unyanov?
(a) The brother of a conspirator.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A landowner.
(d) A revolutionary leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Russia preparing to fight in 1812?

2. Who is Novikov?

3. Who is Nadezhda in love with?

4. What do the People's Will do in 1881?

5. How does Pinegin get revenge on Sergei?

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