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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title of Chapter 39 reflected the celebration of deliverance and foreign capitals that offered dynastic marriages and treaties?
(a) "The Fruits of Perechyn."
(b) "The Fruits of Pryluky."
(c) "The Fruits of Pervomaisk."
(d) "The Fruits of Poltava."

2. Following his stay in Adrianople, where did Charles XII race?
(a) To Plath.
(b) To Pomerania.
(c) To Pyntz.
(d) To Pollnow.

3. Chapter 46 examined the rapid growth of St. Petersburg following what year?
(a) 1711.
(b) 1707.
(c) 1709.
(d) 1713.

4. In Chapter 51, Peter came home to handle a governmental mess and confront Tsarevich Alexis about his _________.
(a) Future religious responsibility.
(b) Future marital responsibility.
(c) Future monarchical responsibility.
(d) Future parental responsibility.

5. Russia captured Riga and _________.
(a) Vysokovsk.
(b) Vysotsk.
(c) Vyksa.
(d) Vyborg,

6. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?
(a) Britain, Estonia, France, Ingria, Netherlands.
(b) Britain, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Prussia.
(c) Denmark, France, Livonia, Netherlands, Western Poland.
(d) Britain, Denmark, Finland, Karelia, Prussia.

7. Peter was able to launch a disciplined infantry line which enveloped ________/
(a) Counter-striking Swedes.
(b) Fleeing Swedes.
(c) Retreating Swedes.
(d) Charging Swedes.

8. Whom did Peter's son Alexis marry in Chapter 43?
(a) Princess Cecilia.
(b) Princess Charlotte.
(c) Princess Chevelle.
(d) Princess Champagne.

9. Charles XII went home to Sweden only after he took Danish Rügen. How many years had passed?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Fifteen.

10. Chapter 36 brought spring's oppressive heat, but Charles XII rejected what at this point?
(a) A peace feeler.
(b) His officer's call to retreat.
(c) His troops' call to flee.
(d) His officer's call to surrender.

11. Where did Charles XII flee as Peter made his first disciplined infantry launch?
(a) Tatar asylum.
(b) Cossack asylum.
(c) Catholic asylum.
(d) Royal asylum.

12. Due to the French monarch's age, who served as Regent for Louis XV?
(a) Philippe, Duc d'Orléans.
(b) Abbé Guillaume Duboi.
(c) Charles Eugene, Duc Du Croy.
(d) Anthony Devier.

13. In Chapter 33, some 35,000 Swedes were against 57,500 Russians, with how many reinforcements respectively?
(a) 50,000, 90,000.
(b) 30,000, 70,000.
(c) 70,000, 110,000.
(d) 110,000, 70,000.

14. Ulrika, the sister of Charles XII, assumed the throne and ordered Goertz beheaded, which left Sweden as a _________.
(a) Sovereign country.
(b) Stable power.
(c) Vacuum.
(d) Vantage point.

15. With Severia lost, where did Charles XII go?
(a) Lithuania.
(b) Slovakia.
(c) Belarus.
(d) Ukraine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alexis finally seek asylum after originally being ordered by Peter to go to Copenhagen?

2. St. Petersburg expanded from Petrograd Island onto the mainland, then downstream to where?

3. How old was Peter Petrovich when he was named heir?

4. When Afrosina provided proof of treason, what did Peter do?

5. Entering Peter's world through Lefort, how did Massie describe Alexander Menshikov in Chapter 28?

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