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

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

3. What did Peter use to assess the plot and rid himself of the menace?
(a) Interrogations.
(b) Threats.
(c) Tortues.
(d) Bribes.

4. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?
(a) Spain.
(b) China.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Great Britain.

5. In Chapter 12, Peter felt the need to shore up a dying anti-Turkish alliance and European worries grew regarding whose ambitions?
(a) Mary II.
(b) Philip IV.
(c) Louis XIV.
(d) Charles CI.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Peter lose his father?

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

3. After invading the Kremlin, for how many days did Muscovy's soldiers kill boyars?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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