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

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

3. 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) Surrender or face death.
(d) Leave, return home.

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

5. In what year did Peter first visit Archangel, Russia's only port near the Arctic Circle?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1697.
(c) 1695.
(d) 1699.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.

2. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?

3. In Chapter 3, who was Sophia?

4. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?

5. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?

(see the answer key)

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