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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. How long did it take to build the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul by hand?
(a) Twenty months.
(b) Ten months.
(c) Fifteen months.
(d) Five months.

2. In 1695, Peter attacked Azov, the Turkish fortress, to end Tatar raids in the Ukraine and gain access to which sea?
(a) Mediterranean Sea.
(b) Baltic Sea.
(c) Red Sea.
(d) Black Sea.

3. 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) Reforming Russian feudal system.
(b) Reforming the calendar and currency.
(c) Offering land in exchange for military service.
(d) Affording peasants, not serfs, voting rights.

4. "Great Embassy" member in Russia felt that Europeans who embraced music, art, literature, and science were _________.
(a) "Iconoclasts."
(b) "Pagans."
(c) "Heretics."
(d) "Agnostics."

5. Largely due to Peter Tolstoy's diplomacy, which group remained out of the Northern War?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Russia.
(c) Turks.
(d) Sweden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter was concerned by the loss at Narva, but he spared nothing to outfit and train his new army under whom?

2. Tsar Alexis is described as what type of ruler?

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

4. Which two carousing groups did Peter form that convinced many he was the Antichrist?

5. Chapter 35 showed the effects of which year's intense cold that gripped all of Europe?

(see the answer key)

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