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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Nicholas is especially weak in ___________ affairs.
2. What is the name of the first Romanov Tsar?
3. "Tsar" is another word for:
4. Which European ruler is the blood cousin of Tsar Nicholas II?
5. What is the purpose of the Assembly of Russian Workingmen, found by Plehve and Father George Gapon?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. On what pretext does Nicholas dissolve the Second Imperial Duma?
4. After Stolypin and Kokovtsov each have personal interviews with Rasputin when they are in office, what happens to them?
5. How does Rasputin believe that people came to be forgiven of their sins?
6. 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?
7. With which religious, sexually immoral, sect is Rasputin accused of having an association?
8. How do Lenin's studies at the University of Kazan end?
9. Catherine the Great is German, not Russian. How does she become Empress of Russia?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and explain how the Tsar's reaction to and handling of the Assembly of Russian Workingmen strike that begins at the Putilov Steel Works and ends in bloodshed on "Bloody Sunday," January 22, 1905, change people's attitudes toward the Tsar and strengthen the revolutionary movement instead of quelling it as the Tsar hopes. Support your remarks with the text.
Essay Topic 2
Using the text as backup, compare and contrast the daily routine of the Romanovs, as described in Chapter 10, with the daily life of the typical Russian worker.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and explain, supporting your remarks with the text, why Nicholas' plans to follow his father, Alexander's, autocratic principles as Tsar strengthen the revolutionaries' cause.
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