Test Bite

1. Why was Nicholas's decision to take command of the army a disaster?

He enjoyed sending men to their deaths.
It made him responsible for the defeats.
He was in St Petersburg when the Revolution began.

2. What factory did the workers strike at on 4 March 1917?

Putilov
Pushkin
Potemkin

3. How did the women start the February Revolution on 8 March 1917?

They invented International Women's Day.
They went on a Bread March.
They marched to the Palace of Versailles and captured the Royal Family.

4. Why was 12 March the key date in the February Revolution?

The sailors mutinied.
The Duma forced the tsar to abdicate.
The soldiers mutinied.

5. How did the tsarina help to turn people against the monarchy?

She was German.
She was obsessed with her haemophiliac son.
She was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

6. How many Russians died in the war by 1917?

9 million
900,000
90,000

7. Why did the war cause starvation in the towns?

The Germans blockaded Russian ports.
It clogged up the railways.
The peasants refused to grow food.

8. Who rebelled on 13 March 1917?

The St Petersburg strikers.
The Kronstadt sailors.
The Putilov strikers.

9. Who did the tsarina blame for the trouble?

hooligans
the cold weather
Rasputin

10. What phrase best describes the February Revolution of 1917?

A middle-class takeover.
A popular uprising.
A communist revolution.

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