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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 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) Mary II.
(d) Louis XIV.

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

3. Peter was shown in Chapter 6 as having preferred activities out of the way at _______________.
(a) Pavlovsky Posad.
(b) Preobrazhenskoe.
(c) Pitkyaranta.
(d) Petrozavodsk.

4. In 1695, Peter attacked Azov, the Turkish fortress, to end Tatar raids in the Ukraine and gain access to which sea?
(a) Black Sea.
(b) Red Sea.
(c) Baltic Sea.
(d) Mediterranean Sea.

5. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?
(a) Rally behind him.
(b) Lay down their arms.
(c) Leave, return home.
(d) Surrender or face death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 21 reflected Peter was back at his highest priority, finding in his shipyards any waste, shortages, or ________.

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

3. When was Peter born?

4. After invading the Kremlin, for how many days did Muscovy's soldiers kill boyars?

5. Who was the King of Poland that Peter met en route home?

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