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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the founding of St. Petersburg transpire?
(a) 1707.
(b) 1705.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1701.

2. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Hepatitis.

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

4. What was the name of the frigate Peter helped to construct?
(a) "Amsterdam."
(b) "Archangel."
(c) "Moscow."
(d) "Rotterdam."

5. Martha Skavronskaya, a peasant girl Sheremetev captured, later became Peter's wife and successor as _________.
(a) Catherine I.
(b) Catherine II.
(c) Martha I.
(d) Martha II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter was shown in Chapter 6 as having preferred activities out of the way at _______________.

2. Peter evaded an anti-Swedish alliance in Prussia to concentrate on whom?

3. Sweden, overextended at the peak of its power, ruled Estonia, Ingria, Finland, Karelia, Western Pomerania, Livonia, and ports near what location?

4. What happened to Peter's great fleet when he sent an envoy on the first Russian warship to enter the Black Sea?

5. What observation could be made about Peter given that he enjoyed Mock-Synod celebrations at Christmas and before Lent, stood with troops rather than the Patriarch at Epiphany when the Moscow River is blessed, and ended executions with bodies being buried as Lent begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What intentional humiliations did former elite troops that comprised old Muscovite armies sustain following Sophia's downfall?

2. What were some ways Peter treated Anna Mons differently after he returned from his Great Embassy tour?

3. When Sophia became regent, what immediate test did she face?

4. What activities did Peter prefer to state ceremonies during Sophia's reign?

5. How was Sophia overthrown?

6. Who was Russia's Fedor Golovin?

7. What were Peter's distinguishing physical characteristics when he was age 22?

8. How did Sophia attempt to ensure that her brief state of thriving during Fedor's time continued following his death?

9. According to Chapter 9, what did Peter find in the German Suburb?

10. Why did Peter's Great Embassy amaze his countrymen?

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