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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Sophia installed new cohorts including her lover, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, and which others?
(a) Prime minister, cultural counselor.
(b) Financial advisor, religious minister.
(c) Defense minister, political advisor.
(d) Chief advisor, principle minister.

2. William III met Peter, long an admirer of his military exploits against _____________.
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) The Greek Orthodox Church.
(d) Protestantism.

3. Who kept order as Peter embarked on the "Great Embassy"?
(a) Nikolaevna.
(b) Romodanovsky.
(c) Streltsy.
(d) Novodevichy.

4. What happened to Sophia after her inner circle was tortured and Peter refused to see her?
(a) She was sent for life to Novodevichy Convent.
(b) She was executed.
(c) She was forced to see the torture and execution of her inner circle.
(d) She was banished to Golitsyn's place of exile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was William III doing in Holland when the "Great Embassy" arrived?

2. Reports that the Streltsy were marching against him sent Peter in flight by night to the historic Troitsky Monastery______________.

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

4. When Ivan and Peter were crowned as co-tsars, Sophia took over as __________.

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

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