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

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

3. Peter was careful to wander, survey, and practice all that he saw Western technology and science reveal, and he dedicated himself to ____________.
(a) Using the same to conquer the West.
(b) Using the same to conquer Sweden.
(c) Advancing international well-being.
(d) Achieving the same in Russia.

4. Golitsyn was responsible for what foreign policy highpoint of the Regency?
(a) Return of Perm to Russian control.
(b) Return of Moscow to Russian control.
(c) Return of Kiev to Russian control.
(d) Return of Kazan to Russian control.

5. What was the name of the frigate Peter helped to construct?
(a) "Rotterdam."
(b) "Amsterdam."
(c) "Archangel."
(d) "Moscow."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?

4. What did the author note Peter seemed to identify as the key while he embarked on his "Great Embassy" travels?

5. Why did Peter go incognito to complete his education?

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