Tsar Nicholas II

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Tsar Nicholas II.

1. Tsar Nicholas II ruled over what country?
a. Germany
b. Russia
c. France
d. United Kingdom
e. Austria

2. Which of the following best describes the childhood of Nicholas II?
a. He grew up on a small peasant farm in rural Siberia
b. His parents were wealthy aristocrats who had close ties to the Tsar
c. He was a poor orphan who was later adopted by the Tsar
d. He was the eldest son of the Tsar and heir to the throne of Russia
e. He spent much of his childhood working in the factories in Moscow

3. Russia was defeated in war by what Asian country in 1904?
a. China
b. India
c. Korea
d. Mongolia
e. Japan

4. What was life like for Russian peasants in the early 1900s?
a. They lived mostly in poverty
b. They worked long hours
c. They had little food
d. They worked under dangerous conditions
e. All of the above

5. What happened on Bloody Sunday in 1905?
a. The Tsar's soldiers fired into a crowd and killed many peasant protestors
b. The Tsar and his family were executed by revolutionaries
c. Russia was defeated by the Germans in a major World War I battle
d. Several of the Tsar's advisors were hung for treason
e. Civil War broke out between Eastern and Western Russia

6. What was the Duma?
a. The leading communist political party
b. The wife of the Tsar
c. The elected legislature that ruled with the Tsar
d. A name given to the heir to the throne of Russia
e. An elite fighting force dedicated to the Tsar

7. What war led to the eventual downfall of Tsar Nicholas II?
a. World War II
b. Cold War
c. World War I
d. Boer War
e. Crimean War

8. Under what conditions were Russian peasants forced to fight during World War I?
a. With no shoes or food
b. They were sometimes forced to fight without weapons
c. With little military training
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

9. Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution?
a. Tsar Nicholas II
b. Vladimir Lenin
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Vladimir Putin
e. Rasputin

10. How did Tsar Nicholas II die?
a. He was executed along with the rest of his family by the Bolsheviks
b. He died in exile in the Netherlands
c. He was shot while fighting the revolutionaries
d. He got sick and died from pneumonia while hiding in Siberia
e. He didn't die, but is still alive living in Switzerland


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