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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date by which Rasputin, writing before his death, predicts he will be dead and which, indeed, turns out to be the day his body is found?
(a) January 1, 1916.
(b) January 1, 1917.
(c) January 11, 1916.
(d) January 11, 1917.

2. What happens five days after the Tsar relinquishes control of the government?
(a) The government collapses.
(b) Alexis hemorrhages.
(c) The entire Romanov family is assassinated.
(d) Revolutionaries storm Tsarskoe Selo.

3. What does Nicholas need in order to go outside of the palace after he and Alexandra are arrested?
(a) Keys.
(b) A police escort.
(c) A military escort.
(d) Advance permission.

4. How many wartime letters from Alexandra to Nicholas are found in Ekaterinburg after the revolution?
(a) Over 600.
(b) 360.
(c) 630.
(d) 1.

5. In March 1917, what illness do three of the Romanov children, plus Anna Vyrubova, have?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Measles.
(c) Strep throat.
(d) Chicken pox.

6. After the revolution, what are Nicholas and Alexandra known as, respectively, among the Petrograd population?
(a) Citizen Romanov and Alexandra the German.
(b) Nicholas and Alexandra.
(c) Citizen Romanov and Citizen Romanova.
(d) Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra.

7. At one point, a drunken Rasputin is arrested for:
(a) Public drunkenness.
(b) Disturbing the peace.
(c) Attempting to overthrow the government.
(d) Exposing himself.

8. Who asks Moscow for permission to transfer the Romanovs to Ekaterinburg?
(a) The West Siberian Soviet.
(b) The Duma.
(c) Boris Soloviev.
(d) The Ural Regional Soviet.

9. In January 1919, a special investigator finds the mine with its evidence of the ___________ of the Romanovs.
(a) Bodies.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Belongings.

10. Who are Pankratov and Nikolsky loyal to?
(a) No one; they were mercenaries.
(b) The Tsar.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) The revolutionaries.

11. The plan is for Nicholas and Alexandra to travel to _____________ and then to ____________ once the children are well.
(a) Moscow; Ekaterinburg.
(b) England; Murmansk.
(c) Murmansk; Moscow.
(d) Murmansk; England.

12. How much of the Russian army is destroyed by the summer of 1915?
(a) Three-quarters.
(b) Half.
(c) Two-thirds.
(d) All.

13. Nicholas thinks he is taken to ______________ and is forced to sign the peace treaty with Germany.
(a) Moscow.
(b) Petrograd.
(c) Ekaterinburg.
(d) Berlin.

14. By the summer of 1915, the Tsar is at the front, but is in actuality a figurehead. Who is actually in charge of the army?
(a) Grand Duke Nicholas.
(b) Prime Minister Stolypin.
(c) Michael Vasilevich Alexeiev.
(d) Empress Alexandra.

15. Where is Stavka, the field headquarters, located?
(a) On the German border.
(b) In Ekaterinburg.
(c) Twenty miles from Petrograd.
(d) Along the Polish railway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrests Alexandra on March 21, 1917?

2. Who is the head of the Russian supreme command?

3. By what criteria does Rasputin judge people?

4. The Provisional Government is trying to get the Romanov family __________.

5. To the peasants in the countryside, the death of the peasant Rasputin makes him a _____________.

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