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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. In Chapter 9, Peter was shown enjoying his freedom for how many more years?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Three.

2. Peter was shown in Chapter 6 as having preferred activities out of the way at _______________.
(a) Petrozavodsk.
(b) Pavlovsky Posad.
(c) Preobrazhenskoe.
(d) Pitkyaranta.

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) Black Sea.
(c) Mediterranean Sea.
(d) Baltic Sea.

4. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.
(a) A son and a daughter.
(b) A daughter.
(c) Twin sons.
(d) A son.

5. How long did Peter send the "Great Embassy" to Europe to recruit and study?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Thirty months.
(c) Twelve months.
(d) Twenty-four months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter's passion for sailing began when he and his tutor found, refurbished, and took a boat out on what lake?

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

3. What happened to Sophia after her inner circle was tortured and Peter refused to see her?

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?

5. After his mother died, Peter returned to Archangel, launched a ship, almost drowned on another, and took delivery and command of a warship built where?

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