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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. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?
(a) Netherlands Nautical, Ltd.
(b) Rotterdam Naval Shipyard.
(c) East India Company.
(d) Amserdam Shipping Company.

2. When was Peter born?
(a) May 30, 1672.
(b) August 30, 1672.
(c) June 30, 1672.
(d) April 30, 1672.

3. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.
(a) A daughter.
(b) A son.
(c) Twin sons.
(d) A son and a daughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?

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

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

5. In what year did Peter first visit Archangel, Russia's only port near the Arctic Circle?

(see the answer key)

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