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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 3, who was Sophia?
(a) Half-sister.
(b) Sister.
(c) Aunt.
(d) Cousin.

2. Chapter 15 reflected William III, simultaneously King of England and Stadholder of Holland, as __________.
(a) Sovereign Prince of Buckingham,
(b) Sovereign Prince of Orange,
(c) Sovereign Prince of Champagne-Ardenne,
(d) Sovereign Prince of Bordeaux,

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

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

5. When Fedor died in 1682 without an heir, the choice was between Peter and ____________.
(a) Fedor's physically-challenged cousin, Ivan.
(b) Fedor's healthy brother, Ivan.
(c) Fedor's healthy cousin, Ivan.
(d) Fedor's physically-challenged brother, Ivan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the result of Golitsyn's encounter with the Khan of the Crimea?

4. In Chapter 9, Peter was shown enjoying his freedom for how many more years?

5. Peter himself went incognito among the 250-member staff as whom?

(see the answer key)

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