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

2. Peter's passion for sailing began when he and his tutor found, refurbished, and took a boat out on what lake?
(a) Pavlovsk.
(b) Pervomaysk.
(c) Pleschev.
(d) Preobrazhenskoe.

3. How long did Peter work at the Dutch company to learn his trade?
(a) Four months.
(b) One year.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Six months.

4. 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) Dysentery.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Malaria.

5. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.
(a) "Iconoclasts."
(b) "Agnostics."
(c) "Pagans."
(d) "Heretics."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Peter tax after his eventual triumph at Azov?

2. Reports that the Streltsy were marching against him sent Peter in flight by night to the historic Troitsky Monastery______________.

3. William III met Peter, long an admirer of his military exploits against _____________.

4. Peter dealt grimly with the Streltsy after they marched _____________ to replace the absent Tsar.

5. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?

(see the answer key)

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