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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. The new army under Sheremetev used artillery rebuilt from scratch using melted down iron from _______.
(a) Cemetery and church gates.
(b) Church bells.
(c) Tools, farming implements.
(d) Old cannons.

2. The "Great Embassy" ended abruptly before a trip to ________________because word came that the Streltsy were rebelling?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Venice.

3. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?
(a) The church, merchants.
(b) Landowners, commoners.
(c) Merchants, landowners.
(d) Landowners, the church.

4. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?
(a) Charles CI.
(b) Philip IV.
(c) Louis XIV.
(d) Mary II.

5. Which nations sided with Charles XII against Denmark to keep the European political status quo?
(a) Netherlands, Finland.
(b) Finland, Poland.
(c) England, Netherlands.
(d) England, Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter was able to launch a disciplined infantry line which enveloped ________/

2. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?

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

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

5. From Voronezh where he displayed power and obtained a treaty with the Turks when Baltic fighting started, Peter set out to reclaim what?

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