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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Imperial Duma, which is first established in May 1906?
(a) Russia's Senate.
(b) Russia's Parliament.
(c) Russia's House of Representatives.
(d) Russia's national soccer team.

2. How much longer does the family stay at Spala, before returning to Tsarskoe Selo, after Alexandra's conversation with Rasputin?
(a) One year.
(b) One week.
(c) One day.
(d) One month.

3. This Russian wins the Nobel Prize in 1904:
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Ivan Pavlov.
(c) Mikhail Gorbachev.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. What is the name of the royal yacht?
(a) The Queen Mary.
(b) The Simbirsk.
(c) The Crimea.
(d) The Standart.

5. Why do the Romanovs have two identical royal trains that travel a few miles apart?
(a) Because of the danger of foreign invaders.
(b) Because of the danger of revolutionaries.
(c) Because the family and their attendants are so large.
(d) In case one train breaks down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the two older girls instead of their debut?

2. What faith does Nicholas' fiancee have to convert to in order to marry him?

3. Does Queen Victoria have a child with hemophilia? If so, what is the child's name?

4. When Rasputin visits the Alexander Palace, where does he stay?

5. What are the names of Alexis' bodyguards?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Russian system of autocracy, to whom is the Tsar responsible?

2. When World War I begins, why do Nicholas and Alexandra travel to Moscow?

3. Why does a riot that kills hundreds of people take place in Moscow, and at what event, on the day following Nicholas' coronation?

4. Which of Nicholas and Alexandra's daughters are characterized as outspoken, very sure of herself, and eager to go out into society?

5. When Alexis injures himself at Spala, who comes from St. Petersburg to help him?

6. When the Imperial Manifesto of October 30, 1905 establishes an elected parliament and rights for the people, Russia's government changes from an autocracy to what form of government?

7. Why do Tsar Alexander and Empress Marie want Nicholas to marry Princess Helene of France instead of Alix of Hesse?

8. What does Nicholas' tutor, Pobedonostsev, believe the only way to achieve national unity in Russia is? What does he believe is done in the event of opposition?

9. During the summer of 1912, while the family is at their hunting lodge in Spala, how does Alexis incur the hemorrhage in his groin and thigh that nearly kills him?

10. What do the old women in the crowd observing Alexander III's funeral procession say of Alexandra, who rides alone and behind the rest of the family?

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