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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Old Muscovy, Chapters 7-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?
(a) One failed and one victorious campaigns.
(b) One victorious campaign.
(c) Two failed campaigns.
(d) One failed campaign.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?

2. The Streltsy mobilized against rumors that Peter would kill whom in Chapter 8?

3. When Peter lived openly in the German suburb among foreigners, which three important friends did he make?

4. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?

5. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?

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