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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. As the revolution begins, what is Nicholas writing to Alexandra about?
(a) Preparing to flee with her family to safety.
(b) Playing dominoes.
(c) His plans to save the monarchy.
(d) Trout fishing.

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

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

4. Why are the Romanovs not willing to escape, even though monarchist organizations triesd to help them?
(a) Nicholas doesn't want to leave Russia.
(b) Nicholas refuses to believe he has lost his throne.
(c) Nicholas doesn't want the family separated.
(d) Nicholas thinks his abdication is only temporary.

5. By sunset on March 12, 1917, the day the first Russian revolution begins, more than _____________ Russian soldiers mutiny and joined the revolution.
(a) 660.
(b) 66,000.
(c) 666,000.
(d) 6,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wartime letters from Alexandra to Nicholas are found in Ekaterinburg after the revolution?

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

3. Of the twenty-eight people tried for the murder of the Tsar, how many are executed?

4. With the Tsar at the front, a substitute autocrat is to be found. Who fills this role?

5. At ___________ on the day they are murdered, the Romanovs are awakened and told to dress because they have to leave quickly.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Romanovs lured to their deaths, and who tells them they were going to die? How long after the announcement of their impending death are the Romanovs killed?

2. At the Four Brothers Mine, how are the bodies of Nicholas and his family disposed of?

3. After the revolution, 630 letters from Alexandra to Nicholas, written while Nicholas is at the Stavka, are found in Ekaterinburg. What do the letters contain?

4. As the soldiers guarding the Romanovs in Tyumen come to understand the meaning of the revolution, how do their attitudes toward the Romanovs change?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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