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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 happens on March 21, 1917?
(a) Nicholas abdicates the throne.
(b) Nicholas and Alexandra are arrested for their own safety.
(c) Nicholas and Alexandra are assassinated.
(d) Michael abdicates the throne.

2. After being warned that revolution is imminent, to whom does Tsar Nicholas give control?
(a) Alexandra.
(b) A regent.
(c) Alexis, with a regent.
(d) Alexis.

3. On what date does the provisional government receive official recognition from the United States?
(a) March 21, 1917.
(b) March 22, 1917.
(c) March 15, 1917.
(d) March 31, 1917.

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

5. When Lenin returns to Petrograd in April 1917, he calls for the ___________ of the Provisional Government.
(a) Support.
(b) Modification.
(c) Overthrow.
(d) Strengthening.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Nicholas and the others keep up on world events after their arrest?

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

3. What does Rasputin want?

4. What is the house in Ekaterinburg where the Romanovs live called?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. On March 12, the day the revolution begins, what is the response of the Cabinet? What is significant about this action?

2. To what is the collapse of the Russian monarchy near the end of World War I ultimately attributed?

3. During the sixteen months Nicholas is at either Stavka or the front, Alexandra is in charge of the administrative functions of the government. What is the result of Alexandra's leadership?

4. Instead of telling Nicholas that a revolution is taking place, what does Protopopov and Voeikov tell him about the events taking place in St. Petersburg, and how does he find out what is really happening?

5. When the Romanovs arrived in Tyumen, in what condition does Kobylinsky find the Governor's house, where the Romanovs are to live?

6. After initially abdicating the throne to Alexis, why does Nicholas change his mind and turn it over to his brother Michael?

7. Why are losses so heavy among Russian officers, in particular, during World War I?

8. When Alexis suffers a nosebleed and Rasputin is sent for, what does Rasputin do when he arrives and what happens afterward?

9. What happens to all of the money that is sent to Siberia to help the Romanovs?

10. What do Rasputin's murderers believe is the outcome of his death?

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