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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. Where are the Tatars in 1262?
(a) Mongolia.
(b) China.
(c) The northeast part of Rus.
(d) Turkey.

2. What does the leader tell the Alans?
(a) That they will not attack Lebed's village.
(b) That they will take Kiy with them.
(c) That they will not fight for Rome.
(d) That they will not take Kiy.

3. What is Russia known as under Ivan?
(a) Oprichnina.
(b) Muscovy.
(c) Kazan.
(d) Russka.

4. Where does Ivan see Shchek for the second time?
(a) In a marketplace in Moscow.
(b) In the monastery in Greece.
(c) In a group of men about to be sold into slavery.
(d) Dead on the side of the road.

5. Who marries Milei's youngest son?
(a) The Boyar's daughter.
(b) Yanka.
(c) Yanka's daughter.
(d) Peter's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stenka Razin die?

2. What is the veche?

3. Whose arrival is Milei waiting for in 1262?

4. Where do the Russians march against?

5. Who finds Ivan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stephen die?

2. What has changed since the scenes set in 180 AD?

3. What is the political situation in Russia when the novel leaps forward to 1647?

4. How have conditions changed by 1066 AD?

5. What is the nature of the political system in 1067?

6. Describe the political state of Russia in 1262.

7. Describe the opposition between Ivan and his brother.

8. Who is Yanka and what is her story?

9. What is the Schism?

10. Why does Bobrov have a grudge against Stephen the monk?

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