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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. Peter evaded an anti-Swedish alliance in Prussia to concentrate on whom?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Poles.
(c) French.
(d) Turks.

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

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

4. Eudoxia Lopukhina bore Peter __________ before they were estranged.
(a) A son and a daughter.
(b) Twin sons.
(c) A daughter.
(d) A son.

5. For how many years was Anna Mons the mistress of Peter?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. William III met Peter, long an admirer of his military exploits against _____________.

2. When Peter lived openly in the German suburb among foreigners, which three important friends did he make?

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

4. What happened to Peter's great fleet when he sent an envoy on the first Russian warship to enter the Black Sea?

5. Peter was treated as an upstart monarch, but he behaved with decorum as he was eager to meet Leopold I, master of _____________.

(see the answer key)

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