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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Charles XII was led into a trap, what did he and his troops lose?

2. In Chapter 38, the Swedes were entrapped, and they convinced Charles XII to flee to what territory?

3. When Peter found evidence of Alexis' whereabouts, where did Charles VI move Alexis?

4. Peter engaged which philosopher to oversee administrative, educational, and legal reforms?

5. In what location were Alexis and Afrosinia initially hidden by Emperor Charles VI?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Charles XII turn south in mid-September and send General Anders Lagercrona's vanguard ahead?

2. What did Alexis do on the evening of November 10, 1716?

3. St. Petersburg came about in what fashion?

4. Why was it Russia appeared to have significantly deteriorated in comparison to Sweden in the spring of 1720?

5. How did the reign of Louis XIV of France compare with Peter's of Russia?

6. According to Chapter 36, how confident did Charles XII feel in early April ?

7. What did Chapter 42, "Fifty Blows on the Pruth," take its title from?

8. Peter gave orders as early as January, 1707, that directed what to be done to Poland?

9. What did Charles XII and his advance regiments find upon arrival at Baturin on November 11?

10. What sort of effect did the arrival of Charles XII in Germany have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peter noted that a lone foreigner was capable of dispatching more affairs during a single morning than a house of his senators could accomplish in a month. What was the Tsar's day typically like when he was in St. Petersburg?

Essay Topic 2

How did the description of Peter's later years at court while in St. Petersburg given by Ambassador Frederich Christian Weber of Hanover compare with that of court life twenty years prior in Moscow presented by Johann-Georg Korb, secretary to a visiting Austrian ambassador?

Essay Topic 3

What were the fruits that Peter's triumph at Poltava afforded?

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