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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Rasputin ally is appointed as Vice-President of the Duma in October 1916?
(a) Alexander Trepov.
(b) Ivan Goremykin.
(c) Alexander Protopopov.
(d) Boris Sturmer.

2. Alexis' illness _________ alter the household routine.
(a) Will occasionally.
(b) Does.
(c) Will often.
(d) Does not.

3. In which member of the European royal family does the hemophilia gene first appear as a spontaneous mutation?
(a) Marie Antoinette of France.
(b) Queen Isabella of Spain.
(c) Queen Victoria of England.
(d) Queen Elizabeth I of England.

4. In addition to all the official ceremonies, what else do the Romanovs do to celebrate Russia's tercentenary?
(a) They make a cross-country public relations trip.
(b) They make a pilgrimage to trace the route of the first Tsar.
(c) They make a public relations trip through every country in Europe.
(d) They make a pilgrimage to Constantinople, the seat of Orthodoxy.

5. Why do the Russians turn away from Vienna and Budapest just as they are about to take them over?
(a) They run out of ammunition.
(b) To fight against the revolutionaries in their own country.
(c) They run out of food.
(d) To assist the French against the Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Catherine Palace is being used as a _____________.

2. In what month does Alexis go to the front with the Tsar?

3. How does the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty end in March, 1917?

4. As the revolution begins, what is Nicholas writing to Alexandra about?

5. What position in Russia's government does Plehve hold?

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