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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?
(a) Mourned, raged publicly.
(b) Mourned, chanted publicly.
(c) Mourned, prayed privately.
(d) Mourned, cried publicly.

2. How many Dutch specialists and officers did the "Great Embassy" send to Russia?
(a) 460.
(b) 540.
(c) 560.
(d) 640.

3. William III met Peter, long an admirer of his military exploits against _____________.
(a) The Greek Orthodox Church.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Judaism.

4. When Fedor died in 1682 without an heir, the choice was between Peter and ____________.
(a) Fedor's healthy cousin, Ivan.
(b) Fedor's physically-challenged cousin, Ivan.
(c) Fedor's healthy brother, Ivan.
(d) Fedor's physically-challenged brother, Ivan.

5. After serfs and peasants were drafted by the thousands for unskilled shipbuilding labor, what work moved swiftly despite what?
(a) High desertion and death rates, poor machinery,
(b) High desertion and death rates, minimal machinery,
(c) High desertion and death rates, no machinery,
(d) Moderate desertion and death rates, no machinery,

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter was careful to wander, survey, and practice all that he saw Western technology and science reveal, and he dedicated himself to ____________.

2. When was Peter born?

3. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?

4. 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?

5. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.

(see the answer key)

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