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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?
(a) "Merry Helmsmen" and "Roistering Angels."
(b) "Imbibing Crewmen" and "Happy Swordsmen."
(c) "Jolly Company" and "Drunken Synod."
(d) "Jolly Muskateers" and "Laughing Bandits."

2. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?
(a) Landowners, the church.
(b) Merchants, landowners.
(c) The church, merchants.
(d) Landowners, commoners.

3. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?
(a) Philip IV.
(b) Charles CI.
(c) Mary II.
(d) Louis XIV.

4. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?
(a) Morocco.
(b) China.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Spain.

5. Peter's passion for sailing began when he and his tutor found, refurbished, and took a boat out on what lake?
(a) Pleschev.
(b) Preobrazhenskoe.
(c) Pavlovsk.
(d) Pervomaysk.

Short Answer Questions

1. William III was not ready when he met Peter during the "Great Embassy" to ally against which group?

2. Peter was careful to wander, survey, and practice all that he saw Western technology and science reveal, and he dedicated himself to ____________.

3. Patriarch Nikon, who challenged Alexis and sternly enforced his own views, was deposed in what year?

4. Tsar Alexis is described as what type of ruler?

5. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?

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