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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Peter impressed by?
(a) Russian populism.
(b) Chinese wisdom.
(c) The profitability of trade with the West.
(d) European ways.

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

3. Who is Novikov?
(a) A prominent Freemason.
(b) Alexander's student.
(c) Alexander's mentor.
(d) A spy.

4. How are Natalia and Grigory killed?
(a) They are executed for their political activities.
(b) In a warehouse fire.
(c) In the revolution.
(d) In a flood.

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

6. Where does Pinegin find Sergei?
(a) In battle.
(b) In the monastery.
(c) Embracing Olga.
(d) In the military.

7. How many children does Andrei have?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

8. Whose meeting does Alexander attend?
(a) The Rosicrucians.
(b) The monkhood.
(c) The Freemasons.
(d) The Raskolniki.

9. Why does Madame Adelaide de Ronville propose to include Bobrov in her will?
(a) Because he has protected her.
(b) Because he is handsome.
(c) Because he is her lover.
(d) Because he is a relative.

10. When does the Tsar dissolve the duma?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1915.

11. How old is Nicolai in 1891?
(a) 37.
(b) 51.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

12. What was the priest at Russka accused of when the police arrived to arrest him?
(a) Heresy.
(b) Theft.
(c) Subverting the church.
(d) Operating a Masonic press.

13. What does Dmitri promise Rose?
(a) To become a preacher.
(b) To get justice for his injuries.
(c) Never to become a revolutionary.
(d) To remember his father.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bothers Alexander about Mrs. Suvorin?

2. What was Misha fighting in 1855?

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

4. What was Novikov arrested for?

5. How long has Nicolai been in St. Petersburg in 1891?

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