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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. What were some ways Peter broke tradition beyond freeing himself of Eudoxia, shaving nobles' beards, and using decorations in lieu of land as rewards?
(a) Affording peasants, not serfs, voting rights.
(b) Reforming Russian feudal system.
(c) Offering land in exchange for military service.
(d) Reforming the calendar and currency.

2. Peter's passion for sailing began when he and his tutor found, refurbished, and took a boat out on what lake?
(a) Pavlovsk.
(b) Preobrazhenskoe.
(c) Pervomaysk.
(d) Pleschev.

3. Peter himself went incognito among the 250-member staff as whom?
(a) Peter Makarov.
(b) Peter Mikhailov.
(c) Peter Golovin.
(d) Peter Voznitsyn.

4. The "Great Embassy" ended abruptly before a trip to ________________because word came that the Streltsy were rebelling?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Venice.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Constantinople.

5. Chapter 20 drew heavily on accounts by an Austrian named ______________________who depicts Peter partying as the events in the previous chapters unfold.
(a) Georg-Johann Korb.
(b) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
(c) Johann-Georg Korb.
(d) Bernhard Victor Schmidt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Peter born?

2. Peter failed in his efforts with Leopold I to gain an ally against the Turks, as Austria was seeking peace in anticipation of new warfare in _____________.

3. Reports that the Streltsy were marching against him sent Peter in flight by night to the historic Troitsky Monastery______________.

4. Sophia surveyed the plight of women in 17th-century Russia and ______________in particular.

5. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?

(see the answer key)

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