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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Great Embassy, Chapters 17-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Patriarch Nikon, who challenged Alexis and sternly enforced his own views, was deposed in what year?
(a) 1660.
(b) 1666.
(c) 1664.
(d) 1662.

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

4. Peter won over the Patriarch, threatened to kill any who opposed him, and then commanded all foreign officers to do what?
(a) Leave, return home.
(b) Rally behind him.
(c) Surrender or face death.
(d) Lay down their arms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upset by Sophia, whom did the boyars rally around?

2. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?

3. Peter could be easily identified and thronged until he was set up securely in which dockyard?

4. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.

5. During the period when Peter built a warship, endangered himself with war games and fireworks, and ignored the Kremlin, what almost took his life?

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