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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 53-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.
(a) Female students, housed in a school "terem."
(b) Royal sisters.
(c) Peasant women.
(d) Women serfs.

3. Ulrika, the sister of Charles XII, assumed the throne and ordered Goertz beheaded, which left Sweden as a _________.
(a) Stable power.
(b) Vacuum.
(c) Sovereign country.
(d) Vantage point.

4. Patkul, an anti-Swede from __________, stirred Peter and Augustus to action against Charles XII?
(a) Estonia.
(b) Ingria.
(c) Karelia.
(d) Livonia,

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After being cornered, what areas did Peter abandon that resulted in his survival and making peace with Charles XII?

2. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?

3. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?

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

5. From Voronezh where he displayed power and obtained a treaty with the Turks when Baltic fighting started, Peter set out to reclaim what?

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