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

2. What happened to Peter's great fleet when he sent an envoy on the first Russian warship to enter the Black Sea?
(a) Rotted unused for lack of purpose.
(b) Sold, leaving sailors to march back.
(c) Engaged in future warfare service.
(d) Relinquished as part of the truce.

3. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?
(a) Mourned, raged publicly.
(b) Mourned, chanted publicly.
(c) Mourned, prayed privately.
(d) Mourned, cried publicly.

4. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?
(a) Return of Kiev to Russian control.
(b) Return of Kazan to Russian control.
(c) Return of Perm to Russian control.
(d) Return of Moscow to Russian control.

5. Peter was treated as an upstart monarch, but he behaved with decorum as he was eager to meet Leopold I, master of _____________.
(a) All nations surrounding the Black Sea.
(b) Central Europe.
(c) Eastern Europe.
(d) Southern Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?

2. Upset by Sophia, whom did the boyars rally around?

3. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?

4. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?

5. 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?

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