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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. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?
(a) Financial advisor, religious minister.
(b) Prime minister, cultural counselor.
(c) Defense minister, political advisor.
(d) Chief advisor, principle minister.

2. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?
(a) Spain.
(b) Morocco.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) China.

3. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?
(a) "Imbibing Crewmen" and "Happy Swordsmen."
(b) "Merry Helmsmen" and "Roistering Angels."
(c) "Jolly Muskateers" and "Laughing Bandits."
(d) "Jolly Company" and "Drunken Synod."

4. Peter was treated as an upstart monarch, but he behaved with decorum as he was eager to meet Leopold I, master of _____________.
(a) Southern Europe.
(b) Eastern Europe.
(c) All nations surrounding the Black Sea.
(d) Central Europe.

5. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
(a) Johann-Georg Korb.
(b) Georg-Johann Korb.
(c) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.
(d) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the frigate Peter helped to construct?

3. In Chapter 3, who was Sophia?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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