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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, The Great Northern War, Chapters 34—39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While he maintained his devotion to Orthodoxy, Peter investigated Anglicanism and was fascinated by which denomination?
(a) Episcopalians.
(b) Quakers.
(c) Unitarians.
(d) Methodists.

2. What was William III doing in Holland when the "Great Embassy" arrived?
(a) Preparing for a war abroad,
(b) Concluding two separate wars,
(c) Conducting two wars simultaneously.
(d) Concluding one war, preparing for another,

3. What injury lay Charles XII up nearly dead from infection?
(a) Horse fall.
(b) Shot.
(c) Burn.
(d) Cut.

4. Charles XII hoped to ally with Hetman Mazeppa, the Cossack who had been waiting for an opportunity to win independence for ___________.
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Ten years.

5. From Voronezh where he displayed power and obtained a treaty with the Turks when Baltic fighting started, Peter set out to reclaim what?
(a) Karelia, Ingria.
(b) Livonia, Ingria.
(c) Estonia, Livonia.
(d) Estonia, Karelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Peter build an outpost that grew into the Kronstadt naval base?

2. Leopold I promised not to relinquish gains Peter made at Azov, but he offered no assistance in gaining entry to which sea?

3. Since Peter needed a more systematic approach to naval concerns, he visited England. How long was he in England?

4. Who kept order as Peter embarked on the "Great Embassy"?

5. After serfs and peasants were drafted by the thousands for unskilled shipbuilding labor, what work moved swiftly despite what?

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