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

2. Chapter 35 showed the effects of which year's intense cold that gripped all of Europe?
(a) 1707.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1706.
(d) 1709.

3. Who was the King of Poland that Peter met en route home?
(a) Heinrich I.
(b) Wilhelm.
(c) Augustus I.
(d) Augustus II.

4. Peter dealt grimly with the Streltsy after they marched _____________ to replace the absent Tsar.
(a) On Preobrazhenskoe.
(b) On Moscow.
(c) On Semyonovskoe.
(d) On Archangel.

5. William III met Peter, long an admirer of his military exploits against _____________.
(a) Catholicism.
(b) The Greek Orthodox Church.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Protestantism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Dutch specialists and officers did the "Great Embassy" send to Russia?

2. The foes that surrounded Orthodox Russia included Sweden, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and which other enemy?

3. Chapter 45 showed Charles XII held in Adrianople for how long while Turkey and Russia concluded peace?

4. Frederick of Denmark dropped out of the conflict following what?

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

(see the answer key)

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