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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. What does Rasputin believe about sin?

2. When do Tsars invoke the blessing of the icon the Vladimir Mother of God?

3. What does the jeweler Faberge make every Easter for Nicholas' wife and mother?

4. Nicholas presents his fiancee with jewels designed by:

5. Why does the royal trains stop wherever there is a cool spot or water available?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do many in St. Petersburg society consider Alexandra a prude?

3. How does the Russo-Japanese war end?

4. What begins to appear in public after Iliodor and his supporters are sent into seclusion?

5. Catherine the Great is German, not Russian. How does she become Empress of Russia?

6. When the royal yacht, the Standart, strikes a rock during a cruise, why doesn't it sink?

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

8. When the First Imperial Duma appears in May 1906, what political parties form along with it?

9. On what pretext does Nicholas dissolve the Second Imperial Duma?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and demonstrate how the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand by Serbian revolutionary Gabriel Princip, which leads to World War I, contribute to the downfall of the Russian military and, ultimately, the monarchy. Support your statements with the text.

Essay Topic 2

Using the text to support your arguments, compare and contrast the ideologies of the Provisional Government that is established immediately after the revolution with those of the Bolsheviks, and explain why the Bolsheviks are so easily able to take control of Russia's government in the days and weeks following the revolution.

Essay Topic 3

Using the text, analyze and demonstrate whether or not Russia's becoming a constitutional monarchy in October 1905 strengthens the revolutionaries and enable the ultimate collapse of the monarchy at their hands.

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