1. What does Rasputin do as a child that earns him a reputation as a seer?
(a) He identifies a murderer.
(b) He identifies a bank robber.
(c) He identifies a horse thief.
(d) He identifies a rapist.

2. What is the name given to Lenin's group of revolutionaries?
(a) Mensheviks.
(b) Communists.
(c) Bolsheviks.
(d) Marxists.

3. Where are the Romanovs when Austria's Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?
(a) Vacationing in the Crimean mountains.
(b) Hunting in Spala.
(c) Vacationing at Livadia.
(d) Sailing on the Standart.

4. What faith does Nicholas' fiancee have to convert to in order to marry him?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Roman Catholicism.
(d) Russian Orthodox.

5. From where does Tsar Nicholas announce Germany's declaration of war on Russia to his subjects?
(a) The Kremlin.
(b) The Winter Palace.
(c) The German embassy.
(d) Tsarskoe Selo.

Short Answer Questions

1. By sunset on March 12, 1917, the day the first Russian revolution begins, more than _____________ Russian soldiers mutiny and joined the revolution.

2. On the day they are murdered, what is the reason the Romanovs are given for having to leave?

3. Rasputin's murderers are viewed as ___________ in Petrograd.

4. Under Russian law, what is Kerensky's call for removal of the Tsar?

5. When Guchkov and Shulgan arrive to confer with Nicholas, to whom does he abdicate his throne in favor of?

(see the answer key)

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