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

2. Peter evaded an anti-Swedish alliance in Prussia to concentrate on whom?
(a) Turks.
(b) Poles.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

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?
(a) Hepatitis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Dysentery.

4. What was the name of the frigate Peter helped to construct?
(a) "Rotterdam."
(b) "Amsterdam."
(c) "Moscow."
(d) "Archangel."

5. What were some ways Peter broke tradition beyond freeing himself of Eudoxia, shaving nobles' beards, and using decorations in lieu of land as rewards?
(a) Reforming the calendar and currency.
(b) Reforming Russian feudal system.
(c) Affording peasants, not serfs, voting rights.
(d) Offering land in exchange for military service.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Peter go incognito to complete his education?

2. How long did Peter work at the Dutch company to learn his trade?

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

4. The King of Poland convinced Peter to undertake a joint war against which nation?

5. At what age did Peter lose his father?

(see the answer key)

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