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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, On the European Stage, Chapters 40-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what year did Muscovy's soldiers believe Sophia's rumors of treachery?
(a) 1682.
(b) 16864.
(c) 1680.
(d) 1686.

2. After serfs and peasants were drafted by the thousands for unskilled shipbuilding labor, what work moved swiftly despite what?
(a) High desertion and death rates, poor machinery,
(b) High desertion and death rates, no machinery,
(c) High desertion and death rates, minimal machinery,
(d) Moderate desertion and death rates, no machinery,

3. From where did Peter seek a mediator or ally after determining that fanatical Charles XII was certain to invade Russia?
(a) Britain, Estonia, France, Ingria, Netherlands.
(b) Britain, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Prussia.
(c) Britain, Denmark, Finland, Karelia, Prussia.
(d) Denmark, France, Livonia, Netherlands, Western Poland.

4. Chapter 1 described Moscow in what period?
(a) The 1680s.
(b) The 1670s.
(c) The 1660s.
(d) The 1650s.

5. In Chapter 33, some 35,000 Swedes were against 57,500 Russians, with how many reinforcements respectively?
(a) 30,000, 70,000.
(b) 70,000, 110,000.
(c) 50,000, 90,000.
(d) 110,000, 70,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sophia use Fedor's funeral to break tradition?

2. According to Chapter 29, what positive improvements were part of Peter's reign?

3. As many fundamentalists rallied behind Archpriest Avvakum, where did others populate?

4. Where did Peter build an outpost that grew into the Kronstadt naval base?

5. With Severia lost, where did Charles XII go?

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