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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "Great Embassy" ended abruptly before a trip to ________________because word came that the Streltsy were rebelling?
(a) Venice.
(b) Dresden.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Constantinople.

2. Peter was careful to wander, survey, and practice all that he saw Western technology and science reveal, and he dedicated himself to ____________.
(a) Advancing international well-being.
(b) Using the same to conquer the West.
(c) Using the same to conquer Sweden.
(d) Achieving the same in Russia.

3. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?
(a) Ivan, Sophia.
(b) Sophia, Eudoxia.
(c) Sophia, Prince Golitsyn.
(d) Prince Golitsyn, Ivan.

4. After his mother died, Peter returned to Archangel, launched a ship, almost drowned on another, and took delivery and command of a warship built where?
(a) Finland.
(b) Holland.
(c) Poland.
(d) Sweden.

5. Reports that the Streltsy were marching against him sent Peter in flight by night to the historic Troitsky Monastery______________.
(a) On Preobrazhenskoe.
(b) On Veliky Novgorod.
(c) On Angarsk.
(d) On Nizhnevartovsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?

2. Who kept order as Peter embarked on the "Great Embassy"?

3. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?

4. Since Peter needed a more systematic approach to naval concerns, he visited England. How long was he in England?

5. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.

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