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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. Reports that the Streltsy were marching against him sent Peter in flight by night to the historic Troitsky Monastery______________.
(a) On Angarsk.
(b) On Veliky Novgorod.
(c) On Nizhnevartovsk.
(d) On Preobrazhenskoe.

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

3. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?
(a) Mourned, raged publicly.
(b) Mourned, cried publicly.
(c) Mourned, chanted publicly.
(d) Mourned, prayed privately.

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

5. When Ivan and Peter were crowned as co-tsars, Sophia took over as __________.
(a) Regent.
(b) Governor.
(c) Queen.
(d) Princess.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Peter first visit Archangel, Russia's only port near the Arctic Circle?

3. In Chapter 3, who was Sophia?

4. In 1695, Peter attacked Azov, the Turkish fortress, to end Tatar raids in the Ukraine and gain access to which sea?

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

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