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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. While he maintained his devotion to Orthodoxy, Peter investigated Anglicanism and was fascinated by which denomination?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Quakers.
(c) Episcopalians.
(d) Methodists.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?

5. Patriarch Nikon, who challenged Alexis and sternly enforced his own views, was deposed in what year?

(see the answer key)

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