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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Popov knowledgeable about in his discussion on the train?
(a) Radical politics.
(b) Cultural developments.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Economic theories.

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

3. How does Rutherfurd characterize the serfs?
(a) Peasants.
(b) Citizens.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Landowners.

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

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

6. Who does Alexander want to marry?
(a) Nadezhda.
(b) Rosa Abramovich.
(c) Arina.
(d) Mrs. Suvorin.

7. Who is Nadezhda in love with?
(a) Popov.
(b) Dmitri.
(c) Vladimir.
(d) Karpenko.

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

9. What does Nicolai try to find?
(a) An assassin to kill the Tsar.
(b) A partner to start a business.
(c) Supporters in his political bid.
(d) People to rise against the government.

10. What happened to estates in the south when the Tsar Russianized?
(a) They were destroyed.
(b) They were consolidated.
(c) They were seized.
(d) They were modernized.

11. What does Misha find out about Nicolai and Popov's situation?
(a) That they are planning to join the reformers.
(b) That they are planning a business deal involving land.
(c) That they are planning to join the army.
(d) Nothing except that there is a gap between him and his son.

12. What does Tatiana interrupt in 1844?
(a) Savva's flogging.
(b) Olga's marriage.
(c) Pinegin's revenge.
(d) Sergei's sentencing.

13. What does Nicolai believe will replace God?
(a) Technology.
(b) Nations.
(c) Science.
(d) The people.

14. What river is St. Petersburg on?
(a) The Danube.
(b) The Don.
(c) The Neva.
(d) The Dneiper.

15. What does Rosa Abramovich do after her father's death?
(a) Goes to work in a factory.
(b) Becomes a teacher.
(c) Marries.
(d) Takes in piece work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Arina?

2. Under what condition will Bobrov be included in Madame Adelaide de Ronville's estate?

3. Where does Sergei attend school?

4. Who is Ivan Mazeppa?

5. What is the marriage between Alexander and Tatiana like at first?

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