Name: _________________________________________ Date: ________________________ Class: ___ Decline and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia ANSWER KEY Directions: Select the best possible answer from the given options. 1. What Russian tsar ruled Russia during 5. What Russian tsar was assassinated in the Napoleonic wars? 1881 by Narodnaya Volya (People’s a. Alexander I Will), a nihilist group? b. Catherine the Great a. Alexander II c. Nicholas I b. Alexander III d. Paul I c. Nicholas I d. Nicholas II 2. What Russian tsar, who ruled from 1825 until 1855, introduced the 6. A local governing body, granted power principles of “Autocracy, Orthodoxy, under Tsar Alexander II, was known and Nationality”? as what? a. Alexander I a. pogrom b. Alexander II b. politburo c. Nicholas I c. soviet d. Nicholas II d. zemstvo 3. Following Russia’s defeat in the 7. Which of the following statements Crimean War (1853-1856), what tsar does not describe Alexander II? initiated universal military a. Assassinated by nihilists conscription? b. Emancipated the serfs a. Alexander I c. Established a police force b. Alexander II d. Put down Decembrist Revolt c. Alexander III d. Nicholas I 8. This group was blamed and persecuted for the assassination of 4. In 1861, Tsar Alexander II abolished Alexander II. _____. a. boyars a. nihilism b. Chechens b. Russia’s boyar class c. Jews c. serfdom d. nihilists d. universal military conscription Check out www.studenthandouts.com for free interactive test-prep games and more! © Student Handouts, Inc. Name: _________________________________________ Date: ________________________ Class: ___ 9. What Russian tsar, who ruled from 13. Russia’s war (1904-1905) with what 1881 until 1894, put local control in country marked the first modern the hands of appointed officials, defeat of a European power by a non- exercised strict censorship, and European power? vigorously used his secret police a. Afghanistan force? b. China a. Alexander I c. Japan b. Alexander II d. Mongolia c. Alexander III d. Nicholas II 14. Japan gained control of the southern portion of what island as a result of 10. Attacks on Jewish areas, condoned by the Russo-Japanese War (1904- the Russian government, were known 1905)? as _____. a. Formosa a. enclaves b. Hokkaido b. ghettoes c. Luzon c. pogroms d. Sakhalin d. riots 15. What January, 1905, event saw the 11. What “mad monk” did Tsarina massacre of 92 peaceful protesters in Alexandra believe could successfully front of the Winter Palace in St. treat her son’s hemophilia? Petersburg? a. Dmitri Pavlovich a. Bloody Sunday b. Felix Yusupov b. Bolshevik Revolution c. Grigori Rasputin c. Good Friday d. Vasily Maklakov d. Red Scare 12. Under Tsar Nicholas II, the Trans- 16. What is the name of the Russian Siberian Railway terminated at the legislature, first organized in 1905? port city of _____ in the east. a. Congress a. Moscow b. Duma b. St. Petersburg c. Parliament c. Vladivostok d. Senate d. Volgograd 17. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children were assassinated by the Bolsheviks in 1918. True or false? a. True b. False Check out www.studenthandouts.com for free interactive test-prep games and more! © Student Handouts, Inc. .