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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 48-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Councillor of State controlled French foreign policy because of the age of Louis XV?
(a) Abbé Guillaume Dubois.
(b) Anthony Devier.
(c) Charles Eugene, Duc Du Croy.
(d) Philippe, Duc d'Orléans.

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

4. Seeking to restore old Moscow, Charles XII takes a direct thrust at Russia's heart rather than first restoring which sea?
(a) Dead Sea.
(b) Baltic Sea.
(c) Mediterranean Sea.
(d) Red Sea.

5. Chapter 15 reflected William III, simultaneously King of England and Stadholder of Holland, as __________.
(a) Sovereign Prince of Bordeaux,
(b) Sovereign Prince of Champagne-Ardenne,
(c) Sovereign Prince of Buckingham,
(d) Sovereign Prince of Orange,

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter himself went incognito among the 250-member staff as whom?

2. In what year did Martha Skavronskaya, Peter's wife, begin bearing his children?

3. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?

4. While he maintained his devotion to Orthodoxy, Peter investigated Anglicanism and was fascinated by which denomination?

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

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